Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Quaker building used as achurch and meeting-place.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word churchhouse.
Examples
-
He lived in that square rock churchhouse in Banida, Idaho, with its big starey windows, which sat across the street from the yellow brick schoolhouse.
-
As for the Goebbelses, it doesn't require any Lutheresquisms nailing anything to the churchhouse door.
-
Will I see the little churchhouse, where I pledged my heart and hand?
-
The first wall of the meetinghouse had hardly been erected a day or so ago, when that drunken one-eyed Red wandered in and was baptized, as if the mere sight of the churchhouse had been the fulcrum on which he could be levered upward to civilization and Christianity.
Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987
-
Even though all his sons were here, helping to build the churchhouse, Thrower knew that this was Faith's doing.
Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987
-
"If I thought my churchhouse had to be built at the cost of a child's life, I'd sooner preach in the open air all the days of my life."
Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987
-
This is the churchhouse in my hometown that my mother raised all of us kids in, basically.
-
May we truly be a Godly nation from the Whitehouse to the churchhouse.
Latest Articles 2009
-
Faith is what all healthy relationships are based on, whether those relationships are in the home, the churchhouse or the marketplace.
-
This is the language Benham uses to describe a campaign he has dubbed "The Gentle Revolution": "Join us ... as the church of Jesus Christ allows her wonderful theology to come out of churchhouse and become biography in the streets.
Max Blumenthal: Storming the Gates of Hell, From Louisiana to Mississippi 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.