uncatechizedadj.
/ʌnˈkatɪkʌɪzd/ Not formally instructed or examined in religion. Also absol.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [adjective] > catechized > not
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1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 28 The manner of ascending to assurance of Election,..wherein..these men are yet uncatechized.
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety iii. 44 But would God the uncatechiz'd were the only persons we had to complain of in this matter.
1685 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II I. 137 The hair-brain'd and uncatechised youths of the Town.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xvii. 237 They found six houses inhabited by uncatechised Guahiboes.
1842 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. xi. 258 It will be thrust on minds unprepared, and on an uncatechised Church.
Derivatives
unˈcatechizedness n.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > state of being uncatechized
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1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xxiii. 619 What means the Uncatechisedness, the Sottishness, Profaneness, Impudence and Irreligion which are so much spreading and prevailing?
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