second council of nicaea

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   the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

   SynonymsNicaea

   Broaderecumenical council

Questions about second council of nicaea

What does second council of nicaea mean?

second council of nicaea means "the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images".

What is another word for second council of nicaea?

Close synonyms include Nicaea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is second council of nicaea a common word?

second council of nicaea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.