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Meaning of swim the Thames | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To convert to Anglicanism.
    intransitive
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see swim, the, Thames.

Examples

“[…] Philip Jenkins, himself an ex-Catholic who swam the Thames, speculates that the rates of decline in his adopted Church are so steep that the last American Episcopalian may have been born.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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