Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The government, jurisdiction, or authority of the church.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The institution, government, or authority of a church.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
institution ,government , orauthority of achurch .
Etymologies
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church + -dom
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Examples
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What "education" and merit are needed to ascend in churchdom?!
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