communicant
noun/kəˈmjuːnɪkənt/
/kəˈmjuːnɪkənt/
- a person who receives Communion in a Christian church serviceWord Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin communicant- ‘sharing’, from the verb communicare ‘to share’, from communis ‘common’ .
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