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catholic when uncapitalized
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When the Apostles' Creed uses the word "catholic", it does not reference the church headed by the Pope, but rather a universal church.catholic = universal; or inclusive of a wide range of people or interests
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She is catholic in her tastes.catholic = inclusive of a wide range of things
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Mae and Tuck clattered on into the village proper, past a catholic mixture of houses which soon gave way to shops and other places of business: a hot-dog stand; a dry cleaner; a pharmacy; a five-and-ten; another gas station; a tall, white frame building with a pleasant verandah, The Treegap Hotel—Family Dining, Easy Rates. (source)catholic = including a diverse (a variety of different types)
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In fact, a hyena's catholicity of taste is so indiscriminate it nearly forces admiration. (source)catholicity = wide ranging
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It was just that I possessed small wit or patience for scientific abstractions, and this was something I think I deplored in myself as much as I envied the capacious and catholic range of Nathan's mind. (source)catholic = broad in scope
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But a strange and catholic selection of citizens tiptoed to the chapel door and peered in and went away—lawyers and laborers and clerks and bank tellers, most of them past middle age. (source)catholic = inclusive of a wide range of people
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Some of the other workers were family men and some were bachelors and they were of different ages and they led a catholic variety of lives, yet on Monday morning they all came to work with a kind of gravity, almost decorum. (source)catholic = broad or inclusive
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Comfort's catholicity of perception and image ... continues to evoke that trembling atmospheric accumulative hinting at a cruel, an inexorably serene timelessness… (source)catholicity = including a wide variety
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Their taste in books was catholic, at any rate; Plato in Greek touched Omar in English; Nietzsche partnered Newton; Thomas More was there, and also Hannah More, Thomas Moore, George Moore, and even Old Moore. (source)catholic = inclusive of a wide range of people or interests
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Or, going one step farther, with those striking remarks to which Naphta had treated Pater Unterpertinger in their colloquy about Hegel and the "Catholicity" of that state philosopher, about how "politics" and "Catholicism" were psychologically related and formed a single objective reality?† (source)
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For her taste was catholic, and she extended uncritical approval to every well-known name. (source)catholic = broad or inclusive
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No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.† (source)
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La Vendee is a grand, catholic uprising. (source)catholic = universal
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They can be met in but one way,—by the breadth and broadening of human reason, by catholicity of taste and culture. (source)catholicity = broad or inclusive
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Why not here, and perhaps elsewhere, plant deeply and for all time centres of learning and living, colleges that yearly would send into the life of the South a few white men and a few black men of broad culture, catholic tolerance, and trained ability, joining their hands to other hands, and giving to this squabble of the Races a decent and dignified peace? (source)catholic = inclusive or a wide range of ideas
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Whether due to his general bent for paradox or out of courtesy, he called Hegel a "Catholic" thinker; and in response to the priest's smiling question about the basis for this comment, inasmuch as Hegel was actually the state philosopher of Prussia and generally considered a Protestant, Leo had replied: the very term "state philosopher" confirmed he was correct in pointing to Hegel's Catholicity in the religious sense, if not, of course, in regard to Church dogmatics.† (source)
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Maybe you ought to think about Catholic school. (source)Catholic = of the Roman Catholic faith
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Lisa was wild when I met her though, like all them other Catholic school girls. (source)Catholic = the Roman Catholic Church
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She may soon be the youngest nonmartyr saint ever beatified by the Catholic Church. (source)
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Apparently, 'charity, hope, and faith' are also the names of three martyred Catholic saints. (source)Catholic = the Roman Catholic Church
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Although it was state-run, there was a heavy Catholic influence, and Liesel was Lutheran. (source)
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Some ladies carried their salvation gloves in their purse in case they ran into a Catholic unexpectedly. (source)
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Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak out because I was not a Catholic. (source)
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She said she was Scotch and Irish, not the Catholic Irish, of course, meaning her grandmothers were. (source)
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One day, Lale received a visit in prison from a Catholic priest. (source)
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"According to the papers, your parents were Catholic but you were unbaptized," Mrs. Dunningham said. (source)
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She had her husband dug up, then reburied in a Catholic ceremony. (source)
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He is definitely a country kid, 'cause he said, 'What's a Catholic?' (source)
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All the kids around North Third Street went to the Catholic school at St. Mary's Church, about five blocks away. (source)
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