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- s'abstenir
- stand aside
- activité pastorale (f)
- oversight
- adhérer (à la Société religieuse des Amis)
- join (the Religious Society of Friends)
- affirmation (f)
- affirmation
- affirmer
- affirm
- Ami -e
- Friend
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Concerning the use of capitals & l.c., cf.
FRIEND
- Ami-e de poids
- weighty, seasoned Friend
- ami-e des Amis (CH)
- attender, friend of Friends
- Ami-e évangélique
- Evangelical Friend
- Ami-e isolé-e
- isolated Friend
- Ami conservateur, Amie conservatrice
- Conservative Friend
- Ami-e d'ailleurs, d'un autre groupe, d'un autre assemblée
- visiting Friend (when referring to an official delegate),
cf. AMI-E EN VISITE
- Ami-e en visite
- visiting Friend
(when referring to a private individual); cf. AMI-E D'AILLEURS
- Ami-e qui a recours aux services d'un pasteur rétribué
- pastoral Friend
- ancien-ne
- elder
- assemblée annuelle (f)
- Yearly Meeting
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It takes an "A" (cap.) when it refers to a specific geographical entity;
it is then a proper noun (Assemblée annuelle de France).
It takes an "a" (l.c.) when it refers to
- an event; it is then a common noun
("on se retrouvera à l'assemblée annuelle")
- a type of institution
("les assemblées annuelles d'Europe sont de tailles diverses")
- Assemblée annuelle de Grande-Bretagne (f)
- Britain Yearly Meeting,
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain
- assemblée d'affaires (f)
- Meeting for business
- assemblée des femmes (f)
- Women's Meeting
- assemblée du Comité (f)
- Representative Meeting
- assemblée générale (f)
- General Meeting;
cf. ASSEMBLÉE ANNUELLE
- assemblée mensuelle (f)
- Monthly Meeting;
cf. ASSEMBLÉE ANNUELLE
- assemblée régionale (f)
- General Meeting, Regional Meeting;
cf. ASSEMBLÉE ANNUELLE
- assemblée trimestrielle (f)
- General Meeting, Quarterly Meeting;
cf. ASSEMBLÉE ANNUELLE
- s'attendre à (p.ex. Dieu)
- wait upon (e.g. God)
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- banc de face (m)
- facing bench
- Cf. iconographie
- Bureau mondial (m) (Comité consultatif mondial des Amis)
- World Office (FWCC)
- Bureau Quaker auprès des Nations Unies
- Quaker United Nations Office
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- céder
- stand aside
- clarification (f)
- clearness
- clarifié (adj.)
- clear
- clerk (n)
- clerk
- clerk adjoint-e
- assistant clerk
- clore le culte, la réunion
- close the meeting
- Comité consultatif mondial des Amis (m)
- Friends World Committee for Consultation
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En raccourci on emploie 'Comité mondial' là où en anglais on dit "FWCC"
- comité des anciens et des veilleurs (m)
- Ministry & Counsel Committee; Oversight,
Worship & Ministry committee; Eldership & Oversight Committee:
depending on the Yearly Meeting
- Comité exécutif (m)
- Meeting for Sufferings (in Britain YM)
- Comité exécutif central (m)
- Central Executive Committee
(du Comité consultatif mondial des Amis)
- comité de clarification (m)
- Clearness Committee
- comité des nominations (m)
- nominating committee (esp. FWCC), nominations committee.
Cf. NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
- concern (m) (text.12)
- concern,
cf. CONCERN (EF)
- Conseil quaker pour les affaires européennes (m)
- Quaker Council for European Affairs
- Conseil œcuménique des Églises (COE)
- World Council of Churches (WCC)
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En tant que communion chrétienne mondiale,
le Comité consultatif mondial des Amis jouit de la qualité de
membre associé du Conseil œcuménique des Églises.
Cela lui donne le droit de désigner un
représentant délégué
au Comité central du COE.
As a Christian World Communion,
FWCC has associate membership of the
World Council of Churches.
Thus it is entitled to send a delegated representative
to meetings of the WCC Central Committee.
- Conseils et questions (m)
- Advices & Queries
- conviction (f)
- belief, convincement, conviction
- culte (m)
- worship (n), Meeting, Meeting for worship
- culte à la mémoire de ... (m)
- Meeting to give thanks for the grace of God in the life of ...
- culte d'attente
- waiting worship
- culte en cours de la semaine (m)
- mid-week Meeting
- culte-partage (m)
- worship sharing
- culte programmé (m)
- programmed Meeting
- culte qui sert d'assemblée d'affaires (m)
- Meeting for worship for business
- culte sans programme (m)
- unprogrammed Meeting
- culte silencieux (m)
- unprogrammed Meeting; occasionally it has the sense of a silent meeting in which spoken ministry is banned
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- demande d'admission (f)
- application for membership
- désaveu (m)
- disownment
- désavouer
- disown
- devenir membre (de la Société religieuse des Amis)
- join (the Religious Society of Friends)
- dimanche (m)
- First Day, Sunday
- There is a significant current of English-speaking Friends who
refuse to use the names of days and months because of their pagan etymology.
They assign ordinal numbers instead. For these Quakers First Day is
Sunday; this differs from usual administrative practice according to
which Monday is Day 1 (e.g. airline timetables)
- direction (f)
- leading
- direction de l'Esprit (f)
- leadings of the spirit
- direction divine (f)
- divine guidance
- distinct
- separate, separated
- Regarding clergy.
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- école du dimanche
- First Day School
- Église historiquement pacifiste (f)
- historic peace Church
- empêchement, sans
- clear
- en bon ordre
- in right ordering
- en ordre
- in right ordering
- entente (f)
- unity
- épître (f)
- epistle
- Équipe quaker pour la paix (f)
- Friends Peace Team
- Esprit (m)
- Spirit
- étincelle divine (f)
- divine spark, that of God, that of God within
- s'exprimer au culte
- speak in meeting
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- Foi et pratique (f)
- Faith and Practice
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- groupe (m)
- Meeting
- groupe à culte programmé (m)
- programmed Meeting
- groupe non-programmé, qui pratique le culte sans programme (m)
- unprogrammed Meeting
- groupe local (m)
- Preparative Meeting (in Britain YM), Meeting (in general)
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- insister, ne pas
- stand aside
- inspiré
- moved
- inspiré à prendre la parole
- moved to speak
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- janvier
- First Month; cf. FIRST DAY
- Jeune Ami-e
- Young Friend
- Jeunes Ami-e-s de l'Europe et du Moyen-Orient
- Europe and Middle East Young Friends
- Journal, journal (m)
- Journal, journal
- J (cap.): title of a work: e.g. George Fox's or
John Woolman's Journal
j (l.c.) a spiritual exercise
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- lieu de culte (m)
- Meeting House
- livre de discipline (m)
- book of discipline
In English as well as French, 'discipline' is used in this
phrase in a 16th Century French sense, now archaic: "instruction,
moral guidance, influence" (Petit Robert)
- lumière (f)
- light
- lumière intérieure (f)
- inner, inward, light; that of God within
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- Maison quaker (f)
- Meeting House, Quaker House
Where Quakers have a whole house for their use,
it is often given the name 'Maison quaker'.
- marcher joyeux
(text.4)
- walk cheerfully
- mariage à la manière, à la mode, des Amis (m)
- marriage after the manner of Friends
- membre
- member
- membre associé (F)
- attender, friend of Friends
- membre de passage
- sojourning member
- membre par conviction
- convinced Friend
- messager, -ère de la vérité
- publisher of Truth
- ministère (m)
- ministry
- ministère de la parole (m)
- spoken ministry
- ministère du silence (m)
- silent ministry
- ministère parlé (m)
- spoken ministry
- ministère itinérant (m)
- travelling ministry
- ministre inscrit-e
- recorded minister
- ministre reconnu-e
- recorded minister
- minute (f)
- minute (n)
- minuter
- minute (v)
- mi-programmé (culte)
- partly programmed
- modérateur, -trice
- clerk
- moment de silence (m)
- a moment of (silent) worship, of silence
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- naissance, de
- birthright
- nombre de membres (m)
- membership
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- ordonnance (f)
- ordering
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- parler à sa condition
(text.6)
- speak to one's condition.
- Pèlerinage quaker pour les jeunes (m)
- Quaker Youth Pilgrimage
- poussé
- moved
- poussé à prendre la parole
- moved to speak
- pratique (f. singulier)
- practice
- premiers Amis, les (m plurie pluriell)
- Early Friends
- présentation d'un-e enfant (f)
- presentation of a child
- procès-verbal (m)
- minutes
- partage équitable des ressources du monde (m)
- right sharing of world resources
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- quaker
- Quaker
- quakerisme (m)
- Quakerism
- qualité de membre (f)
- membership
- question (f)
- query
- quiétisme (m)
- Quietism
- quiétiste (n, adj)
- Quietist
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- recueilli
- centred, gathered
- recueilliment (m)
- Meeting for worship
- se recueillir
- worship (v), centre down
- rencontre (f)
- gathering
- représentant-e légal-e
- clerk
- rétribuer
- release
- i.e. pay a person so that they can
devote their time to a Quaker cause.
- réunion transfrontalière (f)
- Border Meeting
- réunion d'affaires (f)
- business meeting
- révélation continue (f)
- continuing revelation
- rôle des membres (m)
- membership list
- Royaume paisible (m)
- Peaceable Kingdom
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- sacerdoce universel (m)
- priesthood of all believers
- Sainte expérience, La (f),
- Holy Experiment
- salle de culte (f)
- Meeting room
- Sans croix point de couronne
- No Cross, No Crown
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Titre d'un ouvrage de William Penn
- séance d'affaires (f)
- Business session
- séance de l'assemblée annuelle (f)
- Yearly Meeting session
- Secours quaker (m)
- Quaker relief
- secours (m)
- relief
- secrétaire
- secretary
- secrétaire de séance
- recording clerk
- Section de l'Europe et du Moyen-Orient (f)
(du Comité consultatif mondial des Amis)
- Europe and Middle East Section (FWCC)
- Section de l'Afrique (f)
(du Comité consultatif mondial des Amis)
- Africa Section (FWCC)
- Section de l'Asie et du Pacifique occidental (f)
(du Comité consultatif mondial des Amis)
- Asia-West Pacific Section (FWCC)
- Section des Amériques (f)
(du Comité consultatif mondial des Amis)
- Section of the Americas (FWCC)
- selon que la voie s'ouvre
- as the way opens
- sentiment de l'assemblée (m)
- sense of the meeting
- serment (m)
- oath
- silence (m)
- quiet, silence; cf.
MOMENT OF SILENCE
- simplicité (f)
- simplicity
- Société religieuse des Amis (f)
- Religious Society of Friends
- soixante vaillants, les (m)
- The Valiant 60
- subventionner
- release; cf. RÉTRIBUER
- sympathisant-e
- attender
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- témoignage (m)
(text.1)
- testimony, witness
- témoignage de la paix (m)
(text.8,
13,
14)
- Peace testimony
- témoigner
- testify, witness
- Triennale (f)
- Triennial
- Trimestrielle (f)
- General Meeting, Quarterly Meeting
- tutoyer
- Use plain language, speech; thee and thou (v); in French,
address a person by 'tu' rather than 'vous'
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In 17th century English, the forms thee and thou and
you' existed, similar to tu and vous in French.
Early Friends (qv)
in the English-speaking
world vigorously insisted on addressing everyone by thee
and thou, as a testimony
(text.1)
to the equal value of each person.
This tradition could still be found in the 20th century
among some Quakers in the United States
(however, the verb following would be put into the
third person singular rather than the second: e.g.
thee is rather than thou art).
Eighteenth century Anglo-Saxon Friends uncompromisingly
exported this practice into French: this is undoubtedly
one of the reasons why they were considered uncouth in France
at the time. In present-day French, the concern for the
equal dignity of each person calls for weighing up two
sets of considerations: on the one hand to make a statement
by using tu on every occasion on the grounds just described,
and on the other to respect the susceptibilities of the
person being addressed by resorting to the more respectful
vous (the biblically-inclined can refer to 1Co.10.31-32 or
Rom.14.19-21). French-speaking Friends lean strongly toward
the second option; indeed nowadays they tend to tutoyer
rather less readily than mainstream Protestants.
In Africa a further reason argues in favour of vous,
at least by Europeans (or Whites): White missionaries used to
tutoyer Africans immediately as an expression not of
equality but of the Africans inferiority, as one
automatically says tu to a child. Given that heritage,
Europeans are well-advised to use vous normally in such a
context, and to reserve tu for people with whom they are
in fact on particularly familiar terms as individuals.
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- unité (f)
- unity
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- veilleur-e
- overseer
- vérité
(text.16)
- truth, unity
The text is by Edouard Dommen.
Please direct comments on the text to him.
It was converted to html, and all the links added, by
Simon Grant.
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Last revised 2013