catechumen
Example Sentences
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Later, recounting his fruitless sessions with his hopeless catechumen, Father Mowbray tells the matriarch how he tried to explain to Mottram the concept of papal infallibility:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Thereupon she called her brother to her, and that catechumen, and spoke to them, saying: Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another; and be not offended because of our passion.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a message of new life, of hope beyond the grave, of joy, of peace; she begged to be received as a catechumen.
From Life of Saint Monica by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
