national church

noun

1. an independent church within a country, usually representing the prevalent religion.

Word History and Origins

Origin of national church¹

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

There was good principle in the National Church, but evil caused much of it to be unseen, though some of it remained manifest.

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More than this, Jacobitism brought the National Church into peril of downright schism.

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But until the time of Priestley few ever disputed the advantages derivable from a National Church.

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Even in modern Russia some of this dignity pertains to the emperor, as the supreme head of the national church.

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The evil belonged to the individuals and to the period, not by any means to the system of a National Church.

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