Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conforming or adhering rigorously to the practices or creeds of a church.
- adjective Of, suitable for, or suggesting a church.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the church or to ecclesiasticism; given to or supporting ecclesiasticism: as, very churchy in tastes or language.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mildly pejorative
piously Christian - noun mildly pejorative one who is
piously Christian
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Examples
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Instead, Dr. Hawkes will tackle spiritual issues surrounding death and life - "what I call the churchy part" - although the service is intended to be religiously and politically inclusive, and will have readings from Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JAMES BRADSHAW 2011
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My impression is that the producer wanted to demonstrate the power of a changed life through Christ without getting too churchy, which is good, but I would've liked to see the gospel communicated more clearly at the end.
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The property of the churchy is the reversionary property of every family in the kingdom.
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794
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Isn't this a very "churchy" thing which somehow ties up our energies in recruitment to something or other without really addressing the transformation or prophetic quality that the church needs to have in the world?
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Incense here has, to me, a definite "churchy" feel, more specifically, for some reason it makes me think of Orthodox churches with their combination of austere spirit and Byzantine opulence.
Archive 2007-04-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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The service in church was nice, although a bit too "churchy" for my tastes.
Old weekend, new week. magnio 2007
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It helped perhaps that the conductor went for it full throttle and wasn't "churchy" about his interpretation.
Heliane: the reckoning Jessica 2007
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I imagine that mom herself might have said, had she had the "churchy" words and spiritual support, that she believed in an afterlife, in part because she had been blessed with vivid experiences her father's and brother's non-physical presence after their deaths.
Archive 2006-07-01 Christine Robinson 2006
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I guess we all have a "churchy" person in our lives.
The Email That Will Never Be Sent vuboq 2006
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I imagine that mom herself might have said, had she had the "churchy" words and spiritual support, that she believed in an afterlife, in part because she had been blessed with vivid experiences her father's and brother's non-physical presence after their deaths.
On Not Believing in What we Experience Christine Robinson 2006
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