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Synonyms for churchman


Grammar : Noun
Spell : church-muh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɜrtʃ mən

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Définition of churchman

Origin :
  • mid-13c., from church (n.) + man (n.).
  • As in clergyman : noun minister
  • As in cleric : noun preacher
Example sentences :
  • My father may grumble over his beer jugs, but he's a Churchman and a Tantivy for all that.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Neither is it allowable in a Churchman when armed to confess it.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete » by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
  • Her father—my wife's, I mean—was about as high a churchman as he could be, and be married.
  • Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
  • It is by no means clear that we are concerned to study him as a churchman at all.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Such a letter is calculated to shock us in our modern notions of a churchman.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
  • He took his temperature, rang for his drops, and turned to the Churchman.
  • Extract from : « The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) » by Edith Wharton
  • The people, admitted so staunch a churchman as Pole, were beginning to hate the priests.
  • Extract from : « Henry VIII. » by A. F. Pollard
  • They had a Churchman in the chair, and Priestley was not present.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • Witness this testimony found in "The Churchman" for May 2, 1908.
  • Extract from : « Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls » by Various
  • I am a Churchman,—the young man said,—by education and habit.
  • Extract from : « The Professor at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

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