Meaning of churchish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian.
   rare
2. Participating in the world at large; ecumenical, mainstream, non-insular.
   comparative, rare

Examples

“He does not embrace with the same churchish charity all of the poor, white as well as black, as Dr. King docs in demanding a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" — a federal government effort to compensate for deprivation and discrimination.”

“Two children, a boy and a girl in naught but their shirts and barefoot, walked behind the churchish crowd and watched with studious intent the behaviour of their children,[…]”

“Characters drift against a churchish background; the central women like⟳ the novel do not possess⟳ Pym's usual exuberance and irony. Cooley analyzes a passage to show⟳ how Pym here subordinates comedy to realism.”

“Simplistically put⟳, churchish British national revivals compare⟳ to semi-churchish Australian revivals, to semi-churchish regional Canadian revivals, and un-churchish American national revivals.”

“In previous centuries, both the sectish and churchish styles of evangelicalism had been evident, but in different movements (like⟳ the Salvation Army versus evangelical Anglicans) or in the same movement at different times (like⟳ Methodism in the eighteenth century versus Methodism in the late nineteenth).”

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