Immaculate Conception

Definitions: Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception

Noun

1. Roman Catholic holy day first celebrated in 1854.

2. The Roman Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin.

Specialty Definitions: Immaculate Conception

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Immaculate Conception The dogma that the Virgin Mary was conceived without Original sin. This dogma was first broached by St. Bernard, and was stoutly maintained by Duns Scotus and his disciples, but was not received by the Roman Catholic Church as an article of faith till 1854. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Immaculate Conception

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Immaculate Conception is a Catholic doctrine that the Virgin Mary was preserved by God from the transmission of original sin at the time of her own conception. It is not, as is popularly believed, another name for the doctrine of the virgin birth. Immaculate Conception was defined by Pope Pius IX in his constitution Ineffabilis Deus, published December 8, 1854 (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception).

The doctrine is generally not shared by either Eastern Christianity or by Protestantism, though for different reasons. Eastern Christianity does not share this doctrine because it does not share Catholicism's Augustinian view of original sin and total depravity, and consequently has no theological need for the doctrine. The doctrine is also not explicitly developed in its tradition, although there are numerous references in the Greek and Syrian Fathers to Mary's purity and sinlessness.

Protestantism rejects the doctrine because it is not explicitly spelled out in the Bible. They also argue that if Mary could be born without sin, there does not appear to be any need for Jesus to be incarnated and die to save humanity from sin. Catholics respond to this argument by pointing out that Mary's freedom from sin depended entirely on the grace of God, and that the saving merits of Christ were applied to her "in advance".

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Immaculate Conception."

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Synonym: Immaculate Conception

Synonym: December 8 (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Immaculate Conception

Specialty definitions using "Immaculate Conception": Scotists. (references)

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Modern Usage: Immaculate Conception

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Immaculate Conception (1992)
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Commercial Usage: Immaculate Conception

Domain	Title
Books	Franciscans Under Fire: Twenty Nuns, a Girl and a Dog: The Story of the Sisters of Saint Francis of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin (reference) Immaculate Conception (reference) Salt of the Earth: A History of Immaculate Conception Parish, Carnegie, Pa., 1893-1992 (reference) The Automatic Message, the Magnetic Fields, the Immaculate Conception (Atlas Anti-Classics) (reference) The immaculate conception of the blessed virgin dyke (reference) (more book examples)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Immaculate Conception

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
immaculate conception	116
immaculate conception school	22
immaculate conception high school	15
immaculate conception academy	8
immaculate conception catholic church	8
university of the immaculate conception	3
immaculate conception college	3
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Modern Translations: Immaculate Conception

Language		Translations for "Immaculate Conception"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		mariä empfängnis. (various references)

Greek		η άμωμη σύλληψη (the immaculate conception). (various references)

Pig Latin		immaculateay onceptioncay.(various references)

Russian		непорочное зачатие. (various references)
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Misspellings: Immaculate Conception

Misspellings
	"Immaculate Conception" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inmaculate conception. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Immaculate Conception

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	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-c-e-e-i-i-l-m-m-n-n-o-o-p-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: telecommunication.
	-5 letters: communicational, complementation.
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