Meaning of Churchman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Alternative letter-case form of churchman.
   alt-of
3. A churchwarden.
   obsolete
4. A person (originally a man) of authority in a Christian religious organization (a church).
5. A member or adherent of an established church, especially the Church of England.

Equivalents

Examples

“The bishop, a highly placed churchman, stated the religion's opinion.”

“I replied, ‘I attended St. James's, St. Martin's, and St. Ann's, Soho;’—‘So,’ said he, ‘you are a churchman.’”

“Thus they say the king of Great Britain, must maintain episcopacy in England, and presbyterianism in Scotland, whether he be a presbyterian as king William, a Lutheran as George I. or a true churchman as his present Majesty.”

“It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.”

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