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What does churchly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word churchly? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Pertaining to or relating to the church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical.
  2. Devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to, the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church.
  3. In accordance with ecclesiatical standards or ceremonies; appropriate for or befitting a church.
  4. Characteristic of a church; churchy.
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Unlike his brothers, he was a freelance artist with no churchly sinecure to guarantee him income.
His churchly and scholarly contributions were recognized by his election to the moderatorship of the Free Church Federal Council.
His writing turns surprisingly dry and stiff, describing confessional theology essentially as a debating tournament about churchly forms.
Our own churchly figurehead stands head and shoulders above most of his ecclesiastical contemporaries and many senior politicians.
Such a conception was wholly opposed by theological theory and churchly dogma.
Such Church Fathers as Tertullian, Augustine, and Jerome renewed, in churchly guise, the Platonic argument against poetry.

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