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English
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Etymology
See Uniat.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Uniate (not comparable) (sometimes pejorative)
- Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church
- Of or pertaining to Uniates
Noun
Uniate (plural Uniates) (sometimes pejorative)
- A member of a Uniate Church
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References
- “Uniate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Bowker, John (2000) “Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford : Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN: “ 'Uniates' is a disparaging term used by the Orthodox Church [...]”
- Cross, Frank L., Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), “Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford : Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 1669–1670: “ 'Uniat' [...] was first used by the opponents of the Union of Brest-Litovsk (1595), and has been consistently disowned by the Churches concerned.”
- “Uniate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- "Uniate" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
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