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  • adjective feeling an affinity with aspects of more than one religion, philosophy or world-view, and to believe that no one is superior to the others.

Etymologies

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From multi + faith

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Examples

  • Rauf said that, in retrospect, he might have chosen a different location for what he described as a multifaith community center.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Rauf said that, in retrospect, he might have chosen a different location for what he described as a multifaith community center.

    CBS New York- News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY 2010

  • Rauf said that, in retrospect, he might have chosen a different location for what he described as a multifaith community center.

    WRAL.com Top Stories 2010

  • Rauf said that, in retrospect, he might have chosen a different location for what he described as a multifaith community center.

    Jihad Watch 2010

  • The developer of the project Rauf calls a multifaith community center also issued a denial.

    RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds 2010

  • But, capping a daylong rhetorical offens ive that began Wednesday morning with an opinion piece in The New York Times, Rauf said he intends to go ahead with the "multifaith" center near the site where Islamic terrorists killed nearly 2,800 people because not doing so would unleash fury abroad.

    Laughed At by Time 2010

  • People always look puzzled when I say Beliefnet. com, a website that welcomes all faiths, is "multifaith" rather than "ecumenical."

    Steven Waldman: Ban the Word "Ecumenical" 2008

  • The Air Force Academy defended the Luncheon on Monday, telling the Colorado Springs GazetteThis is a multifaith prayer luncheon.

    Air Force Academy Sued Over Right-Wing Religious Speaker Ethan Axelrod 2011

  • The Air Force Academy defended the Luncheon on Monday, telling the Colorado Springs GazetteThis is a multifaith prayer luncheon.

    Air Force Academy Sued Over Right-Wing Religious Speaker Ethan Axelrod 2011

  • The couple said they had discussed plans for Park51, as the center is known, with relatives of 9/11 victims, first responders and others, including the possibility that it could become a multifaith center focusing on religious conflict.

    Islamic center opens its doors near ground zero 2011

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