Noun: communion
| Singular | communion |
| Plural | communions |
Sample Sentences
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My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor; and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. [1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IX, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 150:]
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It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159:]
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to take/receive communion
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first communion
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To receive Communion, open the mouth, letting the tongue touch the inner side of the lip, and having received the Sacred Particle on the tongue, swallow it as soon as you can, to avoid all irreverent touching of the Sacred Host with the teeth or lips. [1882, “Communion”, in The Daily Prayer-Book […] , London: Burns & Oates:]
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One day, when at the height of her illness, she had thought herself dying, and had asked for the communion; […]. [1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter XIV, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part II, page 234:]
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And I have nothing at all left of piety. I haven't confessed or prayed or taken communion in years. [1968, Ursule Molinaro, transl., Narcissus and Goldmund, translation of Narziß und Goldmund by Herman Hesse:]
Nouns inflected like communion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English comunioun, communyoun, from Anglo-Norman comunion or Middle French communion, from Ecclesiastical Latin commūniō (“communion”), from Latin commūnis. See: Middle English Nouns '
comunioun', Latin Nouns '
commūnis'.