churchman
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 24
- Letters
- 9
/ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃmən/
(UK)
Definition of churchman
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (obsolete)A churchwarden.
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noun
- (obsolete)A churchwarden.
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A person (originally a man) of authority in a Christian religious organization (a church).
“The bishop, a highly placed churchman, stated the religion's opinion.”
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A member or adherent of an established church, especially the Church of England.
“I replied, ‘I attended St. James's, St. Martin's, and St. Ann's, Soho;’—‘So,’ said he, ‘you are a churchman.’”
“Thus they say the king of Great Britain, must maintain episcopacy in England, and presbyterianism in Scotland, whether he be a presbyterian as king William, a Lutheran as George I. or a true churchman as his present Majesty.”
“It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.”
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of churchman.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From church + man. Compare kirkman and German Kirchmann.
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