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Webster 1913 Edition
Churchmanship
Church′man-ship
,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)
- 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.
- 2009 October 21, Ruth Gledhill, ‘Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn’, The Times:
Derived terms
- High-Churchmanship / highchurchmanship