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- noun Christianity Obsolete spelling of
churchwarden . - adverb Towards a
church .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And as they searched his chamber they found in a chest two shirts of hair made full of great knots, and then they said: Certainly he was a good man; and coming down into the churchward they began to dread and fear that the ground would not have borne them, and were marvellously aghast, but they supposed that the earth would have swallowed them all quick.
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004 John 2003
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She was taking her way churchward, but at no very quick pace; a fact not lost on one other observers, who stood in the doorway looking after her with an air of puzzled amusement.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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She was taking her way churchward, but at no very quick pace; a fact not lost on one other observers, who stood in the doorway looking after her with an air of puzzled amusement.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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She was taking her way churchward, but at no very quick pace; a fact not lost on one other observers, who stood in the doorway looking after her with an air of puzzled amusement.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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On approaching the Moravian chapel we observed the negroes, wending their way churchward, from the surrounding estates, along the roads leading into town.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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In the midst of it, I saw the person who had passed me as I examined the envelope coming up the street churchward.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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Besides, Mrs. Tutts had turned her talents churchward and now ruled the church choir with an iron hand.
The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916
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It expressed all the rest, and you saw the excellent, pious woman go pick her steps churchward among the puddles, while Jeannette, the cook, in a high white cap, marched before her in sabots with a lantern.
The Théâtre Francais 1914
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The wedding-train forms again and moves churchward in wake of King and bride and groom.
The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912
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Still, the churchward road lay in the direction of many of the homesteads and she saw herself mentally proceeding there, resplendent.
Arabella 1907
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