Conclave vs Council - What's the difference?
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The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.
* (Robert South)
A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
* (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
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* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between conclave and council
is that conclave is the set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope while council is a committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).conclave
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.
- The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.
Derived terms
* in conclave: engaged in a secret meeting; said of a group of people.council
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
- Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.
- O great in action and in council wise.
