Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a churchwarden.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of a churchwarden.
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- noun The role or office of a
churchwarden .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now although I heard so much of this matter, for nothing else was talked of, and it seeming to me more important even than the churchwardenship of Oare, I could not for the life of me tell which side I should take to.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Perhaps a favourite is an incident shortly before he moved to Wapping, when he ill-advisedly paid sixpence to two choirboys to buy rotten eggs, and throw them at a Protestant candidate for the churchwardenship.
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An epic poem may do all these things, as a statesman may play golf or act as churchwarden: but when he dies it is not his golf or his churchwardenship that we feel the loss of.
Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897
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Now although I heard so much of this matter, for nothing else was talked of, and it seeming to me more important even than the churchwardenship of Oare, I could not for the life of me tell which side I should take to.
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