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Lefebvrist community

Lefebvrist community

9.9
A group of Catholics who follow older forms of worship and belief taught by Archbishop Lefebvre
  • noun
translation icon : comunidad lefebvrista
  • After Vatican II, the Lefebvrist community sought to preserve older forms of worship.

Examples

  • Debates between the Lefebvrist community and other Catholics often center on liturgical practices.

  • Many families belong to a Lefebvrist community in France.

  • The Lefebvrist community gathered for a special mass to celebrate an important feast day.

  • The Lefebvrist community holds traditional values.

  • After Vatican II, the Lefebvrist community sought to preserve older forms of worship.

  • Debates between the Lefebvrist community and other Catholics often center on liturgical practices.

  • The Lefebvrist community gathered for a special mass to celebrate an important feast day.

Synonyms

Lefebvrism
vsLefebvrist community
9.9

Support for or membership in the traditional Catholic group the Society of Saint Pius X and its teachings

is the actual group of people who follow those doctrines

Surface Forms

Lefebvrist community singular
Lefebvrist communities plural

Morphology

Lefebvrist + community

The head noun 'community' transparently signals a group, and 'Lefebvrist' is morphologically a proper-name-derived adjective indicating association with Lefebvre, so together they yield a general sense of a group connected to Lefebvre. However, the specific ideological/content meaning (followers of Archbishop Lefebvre's traditionalist Catholic teachings) depends on background knowledge of the proper name and movement, so the full meaning is not predictable for a B1 learner.

Etymology

The noun Lefebvrist community is named after Archbishop Lefebvre and the word community, so it shows a group of people gathered around his religious ideas. That's why it means 'a group of people who follow older Catholic practices and the teachings of Archbishop Lefebvre'.