communion
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7.2
- noun
- /kəˈmjunɪən/
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comunión
- Thus, self-giving is essential to authentic communion with others, which is necessary for one's own well-being and flourishing.
- communion with God
- personal communion
- communion with nature
Your life is in communion with plants, with the plant Kingdom.
- Your life is in communion with plants, with the plant Kingdom.
- A sort of communion between gods and human beings.
- He has an actual communion with God doesn't stop.
- Like it, like I feel like I am in communion with them in some strange way.
- Plus it's plus it's basically pleasure enjoyed in communion.
- And we're talking about the ability to program art with intention to be in ritual and communion before we start to create the art.
- I love the communion, the connection between masculine and feminine, creating harmony.
- So even with respect to masculinity and femininity, some reduce it psychologically to two other terms, which are agency and communion.
- That there is no like kind of communion of agency that that's a big problem.
- And the answer is the defining reality of this, along with the word communion.
- And that's what causes us that the beast is able to cause us to enter into that communion.
Examples
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There are theological doctrines, like the Trinity, that suggest communion is at the heart of the divine mystery.
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As we draw closer to God, we draw closer in visible communion to one another.
Academic text (2015) -
Your life is in communion with plants, with the plant Kingdom.
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Like it, like I feel like I am in communion with them in some strange way.
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Just as prayer for one another is a sign of communion, so is prayer with one another.
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I feel that we are in communion when I'm performing and when they are there, they are happy.
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Today, we would like to begin communion with those members of the congregation suffering illness and physical ailments.
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Our churches affirm that death cannot destroy the communion with God of those redeemed and justified.
Academic text (2011) -
The Intercessions or Prayers of the People are liturgical expressions of communion, of the sort that Tomkins described above.
Academic text (2015) -
The artist often felt a deep sense of communion with nature, inspiring her most profound work.
Synonyms
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1.8
Talking with others to tell and hear thoughts and feelings
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6.4
A shared feeling or quality between at least two people
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4.9
A feeling of friendship and trust among people who spend a lot of time together
A feeling of sharing and close unity among people
A strong feeling of togetherness and equality that people feel at festivals or other shared events
A feeling of sharing and support among people in a group
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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6.3
A Christian ceremony when people eat bread and drink wine to remember the Last Supper
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A worldwide group of national churches connected to the Church of England with the Archbishop of Canterbury as symbolic leader
How Intimate
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Morphology
Etymology
Communion comes from the Latin communis, meaning 'shared', and is the same root as common and community. So when people feel communion with each other, they feel a close sharing of thoughts or spirit.