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churchly

[ church-lee ]

adjective

  1. of or appropriate for the church or a church; ecclesiastical:

    churchly vestments.



churchly

/ ˈtʃɜːtʃlɪ /

adjective

  1. appropriate to, associated with, or suggestive of church life and customs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈchurchliness, noun
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Other Words From

  • churchli·ness noun
  • un·churchly adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of churchly1

before 900; Old English ciriclīc, equivalent to cirice church + -līc -ly
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Example Sentences

It has a very churchly look, and if the steeple were at the other end, it would be equally orthodox.

Another churchly memory at Aoste is a tablet inscribed with the particulars of the flight of Calvin from his refuge here in 1541.

Between his attendance to churchly duties and that of the Honorable Heman Atkins there was a great gulf fixed.

And this, mark you, though I was still unshriven, and he had never named the churchly rite to me.

She lived in an old-fashioned part of an old city, and her family was churchly and conscientious.

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