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œcumenopolitan

œcumenopolitan

English

Adjective

œcumenopolitan (not comparable)

  1. Rare spelling of ecumenopolitan.
    • 1996, Thomas Langan, Being and Truth, page 28 (University of Missouri Press; ISBN 0826210538, 9780826210531):
      Finally there is the “œcumenopolitan” situation, as C. Doxiades termed it, where we witness the emergence of a planetary network of institutions running roughshod over every old culture, and which are being penetrated by the world system (analyzed in Tradition and Authenticity).