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Another word for conclave

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Noun

  1. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together

    See also:

    collect

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Another word for conclave

Noun
  1. See also:

    gathering

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Sentence Examples

  • He participated in the conclave which followed the death of Innocent VIII.

  • He attended the conclave of 1878, but was too late to vote for the new pope.

  • He was almost the only one who succeeded in making a firm stand in the tumultuous conclave of 1378; but the deliberation with which he made up his mind as to the validity of the election of Urban VI.

  • From Messina he proceeded by sea in order to be present at the expected conclave at Venice, where he arrived in the spring of 1799, aged, ill and almost penniless.

  • After a protracted conclave Giovanni Maria del Monte was elected, on the 7th of February 1550, as Pope Julius III.

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