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UK
/tʃˈɜːtʃmən/
]
[ US /ˈtʃɝtʃmən/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɝtʃmən/ ]
NOUN
- a clergyman or other person in religious orders
How To Use churchman In A Sentence
- But they knew well, that the churchman was a far cunninger, as well as a more learned, man than themselves. Hereward, the Last of the English
- They would say that being an archpriest of a major basilica is an important job, you need a senior churchman to do it.
- He was a high churchman for whom the sacrament of holy communion was the supreme moment of worship.
- Good night to you, Sir Churchman; I'm in nae swither whether I would change places wi 'ye the night, but weemen are daft craturs, poor things, and I've had my day. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
- The league at Florence had suggested getting a priest to attack Galileo but was reprimanded by a churchman, perhaps the Archbishop of Florence, at whose home they had met.
- In churchmanship he moved in the early 1840s from less than wholehearted defence of civil establishments of religion to vehement voluntaryism and opposition to state aid to all churches.
- He withstood the intrusion upon the Honiton corporation by the high churchman Sir Thomas Putt.
- Burnett to restrain the roving eyes of the congregation and make gallants better attend to their devotions; all these, in addition to the memorial slabs and tablets, and weeping angels over cinereal urns, tend to give the church that air of ugliness and comfort which the modern churchman detests. She and I, Volume 1
- St. Ignatius was the first churchman to talk about the church's role in marriage (and he did so in a couple of passing comments). Douglas Kmiec comes out against Proposition 8...
- I'm not a churchman any more, your Grace, so I don't automatically obey those who outrank me now. THE TREASURED ONE