Tridentine
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the city of Trent.
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of or relating to the Council of Trent.
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conforming to the decrees and doctrines of the Council of Trent.
adjective
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Origin of Tridentine
1555–65; < Medieval Latin Tridentīnus, adj. use of Latin Tridentīnus area of the Rhaetian Alps around Tridentum; see -ine 1
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In one of the stranger turns of her life she was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, an independent Catholic church, not in communion with Rome.
From BBC • Jul. 26, 2023
By the fall of 2010, the panel was returned to the Tridentine Diocesan Museum in Trento, Italy.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022
He intensified those restrictions last weekend with a new set of rules that forbids even the publication of Tridentine Mass times in parish bulletins.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2021
The 16th-century Tridentine Mass was replaced after the Second Vatican Council with a new standard version approved in 1970.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2021
The Church may promulgate a decree in one country and not in another; the Tridentine decrees at the close of some four centuries are not yet made universally obligatory.
From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.
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