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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