Transubstantiation

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the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist

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synonym: transmutation
plural: Transubstantiations
possessive: Transubstantiation's
pluralpossessive: Transubstantiations'

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