multireligious

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Etymology[edit]

multi- +‎ religious

Adjective[edit]

multireligious (comparative more multireligious, superlative most multireligious)

  1. Having, or being home to, multiple religions.
    Coordinate term: monoreligious
    • 2001, Carl Sterkens, Interreligious Learning [] , BRILL, →ISBN, page 49:
      On the basis of these criteria, which have to be spelled out and applied, we can describe and evaluate the monoreligious, multireligious and interreligious models for dealing with religious plurality in an educational context.
    • 2009 January 10, Anand Giridharadas, “India Has a Soft Spot for Bush”, in New York Times[1]:
      Despite their being multiethnic and multireligious democracies with an entrepreneurial streak, the two countries had drifted apart during the cold war []

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