Meaning of churchdom | Babel Free

Definitions

The institution, government, or authority of a church.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Whatsoever Church pretendeth to a new beginning, pretendeth at the same time to a new Churchdome, and whatsoever is so new is none.”

“When a preacher knows that, if he should be turned from his church to-morrow, there are other paying fields of activity for him, he is not going to bow before any of the petty or the strong bosses of churchdom.”

“Like Malaysia, the work of individual evangelists who largely became active without having institutional ties to any missionary or ecclesiastical organization was instrumental for the emergence of indigenous churchdoms in the Netherlands Indies.”

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