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denomination

/dih-nom-uh-ney-shuhn/US // dɪˌnɒm əˈneɪ ʃən //UK // (dɪˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən) //

派别,宗派,分派,派系

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a religious group, usually including many local churches, often larger than a sect: the Lutheran denomination.
    • : one of the grades or degrees in a series of designations of quantity, value, measure, weight, etc.: He paid $500 in bills of small denomination.
    • : a name or designation, especially one for a class of things.
    • : a class or kind of persons or things distinguished by a specific name.
    • : the act of naming or designating a person or thing.

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Examples

  • Notable among the speakers is Walter Kim, a theologian who last year became president of the National Association of Evangelicals — a group of denominations and institutions not known for their support for LGBTQ rights.

  • It joins other denominations which have been eroded by hyperinflation, which soared to 800% in 2020 before slowing down to 106% this year.

  • Still, countries including Canada and Australia have features on their currency that allow blind people to distinguish one denomination from another.

  • QAnon conspiracy theories have burrowed so deeply into American churches that pastors are expressing alarm — and a new poll shows the bogus teachings have become as widespread as some denominations.

  • The “Protocol of Reconciliation and Grace through Separation” would allow the departing congregations to keep their property and give them $25 million to form a new denomination.

  • Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination.

  • And no religious denomination should be forced to ordain gays or women as priests, right?

  • When I ask him what religious denomination he represents, he replies, “every.”

  • We justified the rankings by the reporting and by guidance from those most familiar with each denomination.

  • Communion practices vary by denomination and even by individual parishes.

  • No more than one convent of each denomination is allowed to subsist, and great checks are put on the profession of new members.

  • He heard the arithmetic class reciting and learned that only things of the same denomination can be subtracted from each other.

  • While alone and contented, I was all right, but to return to the denomination would mean to leave both robe and title behind.

  • He should have taken those bills far away and had them exchanged for money of smaller denomination.

  • After the Mormon fiasco and the evaporation of the Fieldingites, another denomination took it.