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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