Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a church; not attached or belonging to any church.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a church.
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- adjective Without a
church .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His field director is Deves Toon, a churchless reverend.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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They also can be churchless and may do things like gather friends to read the Bible together.
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During high school, he'd stumbled across a churchless church led by a retired major or colonel whose name never quite stuck with me.
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In this actual world a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.
The Courage To Be Christian MIKE NAPPA 2001
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In this actual world a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.
The Courage To Be Christian MIKE NAPPA 2001
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It seems he was forever defending the “sinners” against the “righteous,” and he was often found hanging around the immoral, the outsiders, the churchless people of ill repute.
The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan 1997
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It seems he was forever defending the “sinners” against the “righteous,” and he was often found hanging around the immoral, the outsiders, the churchless people of ill repute.
The God of the Towel Jim McGuiggan 1997
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Think by all means, but think also of what is actual, of what like the stern world is, of low much even you, creedless and churchless, could do to make it better.
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Some recent studies, however, while not extensive enough to justify a conclusion, seem to indicate that in some of the largest cities the church is losing its hold, and that more and more the population of our largest urban centers is becoming churchless, if not without religion.
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And monstrous architectural portents in Boston and Salt Lake City encourage one to suppose that even that churchless aspect, which so stirred the speculative element in Mr. Henry James, is only the opening formless phase of a community destined to produce not only classes but intellectual and moral forms of the most remarkable kind.
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