CATHOLIC in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of CATHOLIC
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catholic
 a.  broadly sympathetic; universal; related to Roman Catholic Church
Classic Sentence:
1  I am a catholic as my father was and his father before him and his father before him again, when we gave up our lives rather than sell our faith.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  For the pious and believing catholic, for the just man, death is no cause of terror.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  Yet even there, on the hill of Calvary, He founded the holy catholic church against which, it is promised, the gates of hell shall not prevail.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  The priest had answered that Victor Hugo had never written half so well when he had turned against the church as he had written when he was a catholic.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  Ignatius Gallaher made a catholic gesture with his right arm.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
6  La Vendee is a grand, catholic uprising.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
7  No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
8  I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on by renegade catholics.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  O, come all you Roman catholics That never went to mass.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  The atom bomb is of catholic concern.
2  He was extremely catholic in his taste and read everything he could find in the library.