| 释义 |
undeˌnomiˈnational, a.
[un-1 7.]
Not belonging to any particular religious denomination.
Freq. in 19th cent. use in connexion with religious education in elementary schools.
1871Athenæum 15 Apr. 465 It has ruled that the new Board schools are to be strictly undenominational. 1885Manch. Exam. 20 Mar. 8/5 The..advantage of an undenominational system of education.
Hence undenomiˈnationalism, -alist, -alize v., -ally adv.
1883Christian 1 Nov. 12/2 His strong protest against *undenominationalism..does not appear to us well-timed.
1879T. Legge in A. Peel Lett. to Victorian Editor (1929) 323 Somerville Hall will belong to the *undenominationalists. 1884Pall Mall G. 14 Aug. 4/2 The most animated debate of the whole Conference was that between Churchmen and undenominationalists.
1895Forum (N.Y.) June 435 Our own scattered colleges, now ‘*undenominationalized’, if not secularized, can be gathered into groups and unified.
1906Westm. Gaz. 8 Feb. 2 How this is to be done *undenominationally I do not know. |