Real presence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (Christianity) the Christian doctrine that the body of Christ is actually present in the Eucharist

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  1. (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation.

Webster 1913