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Meanings of communion (communions) in English
The act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist.
Usage of communions in English
1
They have gone up from earthly communions to the communion on high.
2
These two last Sundays I have found our communions diminished by one-half.
3
She envied her youth its capacity for day-dreaming, for imagining interminable communions.
4
The great division of Protestant Churches is, into the Lutheran, and Calvinist communions.
5
And it is so, I repeat, with all our best communions.
6
When his devotions and communions are over, we shall greet him.
7
How may we have the same rapturous joy at communions now?
8
All my past confessions and communions have been as many sacrileges!
9
But clearly, these communions have taken a toll on her.
10
I do hope the dear sisters will remember me in their prayers and communions.'
11
There was a simple and definite family feeling within communions.
12
As early as Bede, in England, though not in Rome, communions were very infrequent.
13
Never then, since that time, did I go to the communions of the King.
14
If not potlucks then communions, and that's why they called it a Fellowship Hall.
15
The dispute of the prelates of the Anglican and catholic communions is an interesting exception.
16
Only, the fathers have the advantage of singing the office and obtaining more frequent communions.
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