Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being a churchman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

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  • noun The craft or skill of being a churchman.

Etymologies

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From churchman +‎ -ship. Compare statesmanship.

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Examples

  • He slung it out in vigorous quotations from his pulpit, point blank at the unreality, and formalism, and pharisaism, and love of this present evil world, which too often underlies the most precise "churchmanship" and the most punctual church-going.

    To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880

  • We may be different branches of the seven golden candlesticks, varying and diversified in outward form and workmanship; but let us combine in "showing forth the praises of Him" who recognizes, as the one true "churchmanship," fidelity in shining for His glory "as lights in the world."

    The Mind of Jesus 1856

  • : One of the more confounding aspects to the current crisis is the repeating confusion of traditional terms of "churchmanship" for the current divisions of theology.

    Stand Firm 2009

  • "churchmanship" was pretty much what I imbibed from the people around me.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Tzoran 2010

  • "churchmanship" was pretty much what I imbibed from the people around me.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Conservative 2010

  • "churchmanship" was pretty much what I imbibed from the people around me.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Conservative 2010

  • "churchmanship" was pretty much what I imbibed from the people around me.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DouglasA 2010

  • "churchmanship" was pretty much what I imbibed from the people around me.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Aschlafly 2010

  • "churchmanship" was pretty much what I imbibed from the people around me.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] DanielPulido 2010

  • "churchmanship" was pretty much what I imbibed from the people around me.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TK 2010

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