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Definition of churchly in English: churchlyadjective ˈtʃəːtʃliˈCHərCHlē Relating to the Christian Church; ecclesiastical. views about biblical and churchly authority an exquisite album of churchly, ambient songs Example sentencesExamples - Nineteenth-century pietism stressed individual encounters with the divine and denigrated churchly, corporate forms of devotion as Catholic paganizations of the gospel.
- He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory.
- His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council.
- That fact alone should arouse our interest: when have any of us found the names of theologians or other such churchly types in a tourist brochure?
- At a time when most Christian music was staid and churchly, they started a Christian rock band that soon was being tapped for a national record deal.
- One of the most interesting puzzles in the sociology of religion is why Americans are so much more religious as well as more churchly than Europeans.
- Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income.
- Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
- His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms.
- The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm.
- Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
- Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.
- Once I do get to leave the day job, I usually head to the church job, or do churchly duties at home.
- Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
- He has wanted to lead theology out of what he perceived as its post-World War II isolationist occupation with purely churchly questions.
Synonyms priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral
OriginOld English circlic, cyrclic, from church. Definition of churchly in US English: churchlyadjectiveˈCHərCHlē Relating to the Christian Church; ecclesiastical. views about biblical and churchly authority an exquisite album of churchly, ambient songs Example sentencesExamples - He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory.
- Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income.
- Nineteenth-century pietism stressed individual encounters with the divine and denigrated churchly, corporate forms of devotion as Catholic paganizations of the gospel.
- Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
- His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council.
- Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
- The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm.
- He has wanted to lead theology out of what he perceived as its post-World War II isolationist occupation with purely churchly questions.
- Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.
- One of the most interesting puzzles in the sociology of religion is why Americans are so much more religious as well as more churchly than Europeans.
- Once I do get to leave the day job, I usually head to the church job, or do churchly duties at home.
- At a time when most Christian music was staid and churchly, they started a Christian rock band that soon was being tapped for a national record deal.
- Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
- That fact alone should arouse our interest: when have any of us found the names of theologians or other such churchly types in a tourist brochure?
- His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms.
Synonyms priestly, ministerial, clerical, ecclesiastic, prelatic, canonical, parsonical, pastoral
OriginOld English circlic, cyrclic, from church. |