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Synonyms for churchly


Grammar : Adj
Spell : church-lee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɜrtʃ li



Définition of churchly

  • adj spiritual
Example sentences :
  • The tone of the whole work is fervent, elevated, and churchly.
  • Extract from : « Music in the History of the Western Church » by Edward Dickinson
  • It filled the churchly heart with anguish and bitter disappointment.
  • Extract from : « Day and Night Stories » by Algernon Blackwood
  • But dogma is not yet technical for what is Christian or churchly.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 » by Various
  • That he grew to perceive the childishness of churchly dogma, we know.
  • Extract from : « Carmen Ariza » by Charles Francis Stocking
  • And Cally Heth stood alone in the more than churchly stillness.
  • Extract from : « V. V.'s Eyes » by Henry Sydnor Harrison
  • Between his attendance to churchly duties and that of the Honorable Heman Atkins there was a great gulf fixed.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • And this, mark you, though I was still unshriven, and he had never named the churchly rite to me.
  • Extract from : « The Master of Appleby » by Francis Lynde
  • The emergence of the churchly play into the open was effected through the agency of ecclesiastic ceremonial.
  • Extract from : « Some Forerunners of Italian Opera » by William James Henderson
  • His sermons are models of churchly commonplace and full of the stock phrases of a formal religion.
  • Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 » by Elbert Hubbard
  • Such a conception was wholly opposed by theological theory and churchly dogma.
  • Extract from : « The Vitality of Mormonism--Brief Essays » by James E. Talmage

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