churchliness

In today's political climate, where Craig's Republican party has so tautly tethered itself to the spires of churchliness, how symbolically different is his indiscretion from that of a clergyman?

Michael Ames: Forgive Me Father: Priest Favors Forgiveness for Larry Craig 2008

While ECUSA continues its headlong ride off the road of Tradition, clerical worthies devise ways to place a patina of ancient churchliness on the events of ordinary life.

ECUSA's General Convention: just getting started Mike L 2006

The characteristic poets of the Victorian Era, says Max Plowman, "wrote under the dominance of churchliness, of 'sweetness and light,' and a thousand lesser theories that have not truth but comfort for their end."

Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

The characteristic poets of the Victorian Era, says Max Plowman, "wrote under the dominance of churchliness, of 'sweetness and light,' and a thousand lesser theories that have not truth but comfort for their end."

Introductory Louis Untermeyer 1920

Special attention has been given to fresh air and light; there is nothing of the dim, religious light that goes with medieval churchliness.

Acres of Diamonds and His Life and Achievements 1915

Special attention has been given to fresh air and light; there is nothing of the dim, religious light that goes with medieval churchliness.

Acres of Diamonds Conwell, Russell H 1915

Yet the risk of death was so inescapable and she was so imbued with churchliness that her dreams were filled with visions of herself dead and buried in unhallowed ground, of herself and Jim standing at heaven's gate and turned away for lack of a blessing on their union.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Into the drawing room under the ten thousand dollar chandelier he moved a billiard table and the click of ivory balls banished the churchliness of the place.

Marching Men Sherwood Anderson 1908

His all-absorbing churchliness and supernatural claims of sacerdotal supremacy were in nowise incompatible with violations of the most ordinary courtesies of a gentleman, or the most rudimentary virtues of a Christian.

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

We would not, however, claim that, in the present state of affairs, on account of a lack of proper understanding and churchliness and because of the unconscious influence of popular notions, there is no need, occasion, and opportunity for still more marked and general awakenings.

The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church 1887