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名詞

tuath (plural tuaths or tuatha)

1. (historical) A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 331:

     There was nothing fixed or enduring about many tuatha, and reflecting the itinerant character of much of Irish society, the Church developed the peculiar phenomenon of roving ecclesiastic families [...].