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Webster 1913 Edition


Churchmanship

Church′man-ship

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Noun.
The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

Definition 2024


churchmanship

churchmanship

English

Noun

churchmanship (countable and uncountable, plural churchmanships)

  1. The craft or skill of being a churchman. [from 17th c.]
    • 2009 October 21, Ruth Gledhill, ‘Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn’, The Times:
      [] partly because of their “more Roman than the Romans” style of churchmanship, but also for fear of upsetting Anglicans and the Church of England [] .
    • 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:
      His parents had brought Hicks up as an evangelical but his churchmanship seems to have become much more moderate.

Derived terms

  • High-Churchmanship / highchurchmanship