Sample Sentences for
catholic
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catholic when uncapitalized

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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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    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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    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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    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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    In fact, a hyena's catholicity of taste is so indiscriminate it nearly forces admiration.  (source)
    catholicity = wide ranging
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    La Vendee is a grand, catholic uprising.  (source)
    catholic = universal
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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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    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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    Every book supplies its time with one good word; every municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day, and the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.  (source)
    catholic = broad in scope
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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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    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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    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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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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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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    Apparently, 'charity, hope, and faith' are also the names of three martyred Catholic saints.  (source)
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    She may soon be the youngest nonmartyr saint ever beatified by the Catholic Church.  (source)
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    Although it was state-run, there was a heavy Catholic influence, and Liesel was Lutheran.  (source)
    Catholic = the Roman Catholic Church
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    Maybe you ought to think about Catholic school.  (source)
    Catholic = of the Roman Catholic faith
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    When my Catholic classmates recited their prayers, we Jews were required to stand and be silent.  (source)
    Catholic = the Roman Catholic Church
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    It just happens to be a Catholic school.  (source)
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    "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said.  (source)
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    I've always been a Catholic and have gone to church and received the sacraments.  (source)
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    "As a matter of fact, she's Catholic," Hannah said.  (source)
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    Sundown, my little Catholic friend, sundown.  (source)
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    There's no reason this girl needs to tell the world far and wide that she's a Catholic.  (source)
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    If you get baptized a Catholic, you have to marry a Catholic.  (source)
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