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unification|juːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[f. unify v. (see -ation), or a. F. unification, It. unificazione.]
1. The action or process of unifying or uniting; reduction to unity or to a uniform system; the result of this.
1851Gallenga Italy II. i. 25 The unification of Italy would thus be gradual and pacific. 1865Lecky Ration. I. 231 A process of transformation or unification of religious ideas. 1880E. Kirke Garfield 46 The recent movement for the unification and preservation of nations.
2. Comb. Unification Church, an evangelistic religious and political organization (see quot. 1973) founded in 1954 in Korea by Sun Myung Moon, and subsequently known as a cult religion in the U.S. and elsewhere. Its adherents are sometimes contemptuously called Moonies.
1973Time 15 Oct. 129/3 By 1954 he had founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity—known more simply as the Unification Church. 1975Americana Ann. 481/1 A..group in Korea, called the Unification Church, claiming Christian origins and suggesting Messianic status for its leader, the Rev. Sun..Moon, engaged in evangelistic work in the United States. 1976Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 18 Mar. 7/2 The fringe religious groups include..Unification Church, [etc.]. 1979Minutes Gen. Synod House of Bishops 3 May 4 The Archbishop of York made a statement..relating to the Unification Church.
Hence unifiˈcationist n. and a.; ˈunificator, a unifier; unifiˈcatory a., tending to unify.
1870Contemp. Rev. XV. 400 The people..proclaimed them in anticipation the ‘unificators’ of Italy. a1897W. Wallace Lect. (1898) 84 The monistic, if that means the unificatory, instinct is irresistible. 1909–N.E.D. Unificationist sb. and a. [listed (in 1926) as having ‘had some slight currency in recent use’]. 1932W. T. Stace Theory of Knowl. vii. 156 The other chief logical character of unificatory constructions is that they..are simply serviceable fictions. 1971A. Kirk-Greene in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 143 In Nigeria, Hausa..played the same unificatory role until its use was forbidden..during the 1939–45 war. |
