nonsacramental
1
8.4
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈsækrəˌmɛntəl/
- If the marriages of nonbelievers, including baptized nonbelievers, are nonsacramental, as I have argued, then they are also dissoluble according to the norms of canon 1143.
- nonsacramental marriage
Examples
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Is it possible for baptized persons to enter into a valid marriage that is nonsacramental?
Academic text (1991) -
And so the claim to indissolubility was no longer extended to nonsacramental marriages.
Academic text (2004) -
However, in 1973, an instruction from the CDF was published with guidelines that permitted the second marriage to be nonsacramental.
Academic text (2004) -
These examples were not the end of such exercises of papal power over all nonsacramental marriages, since other cases were decided in a similar way for a decade.
Academic text (2004) -
Second, given the fact that the vast majority of marriages taking place around the world are nonsacramental, then, in accord with the Church's present teaching, most marriages are not indissoluble.
Academic text (2004) -
The so-called Pauline Privilege, whereby a distinction is made regarding nonsacramental marriages, is a decision by the later Church, not the Apostle to the Gentiles.
Academic text (2004) -
The nonconsummated marriage may be, and frequently is, dissolved "for a just reason" (canon 1142), and the nonsacramental marriage may be, and frequently is, dissolved "in favor of the faith" (canon 1143).
Academic text (1991) -
The justification for this was, as with the Helena case, "the privilege of the faith" whereby a nonsacramental marriage was dissolved for the sake of permitting a second, sacramental marriage, even though in the second incident the Church had granted a dispensation for the nonsacramental marriage to occur.
Academic text (2004) -
The justification for this was, as with the Helena case, "the privilege of the faith" whereby a nonsacramental marriage was dissolved for the sake of permitting a second, sacramental marriage, even though in the second incident the Church had granted a dispensation for the nonsacramental marriage to occur.
Academic text (2004) -
Many communities hold celebrations that are nonsacramental, allowing everyone to participate without religious restrictions.
Synonyms
1
9.0
Not made holy or set aside for religious use
1
8.9
Not made holy in a religious ceremony
1
8.5
Not used in formal worship services, for example music or readings
Antonyms
How Sacramental
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonsacramental = sacramental (transparent) = non + sacrament + al
Formed by the productive negative prefix 'non-' added to 'sacramental', yielding the straightforward meaning 'not relating to a sacrament'.
Etymology
The word nonsacramental combines non- meaning 'not' with sacrament, from a root meaning 'sacred', and it shares this root with the word sacred. So nonsacramental literally means 'not connected with religious sacraments or rites'.