Meaning of churchlike | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service.

Examples

“The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect […]”

“The court was filled. Some people even stood behind the churchlike benches in the rear.”

“There are churchlike or synagoguelike chapels and leaders who deliver Sunday sermons, perform pastoral duties, and conduct "services," though without prayer to a deity.”

“This is […] a break with the practice at American diamond stores, where shopping for engagement rings is a solemnized and somewhat stressfully churchlike experience of awe and trembling before the altar of massive debt.”

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