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What is the noun for churchism?

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church
  1. (countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place. [from 9th c.]
  2. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity. [from 9th c.]
  3. (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. [from 9th c.]
  4. (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity. [from 9th c.]
  5. (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service. [from 10th c.]
  6. (informal) A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group. [from 16th c.]
  7. (obsolete) assembly
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Canova began, during his lifetime, a magnificent church in the form of an antique temple, combining the peristyle of the Parthenon with the cupola of the Pantheon.”
      “Most described their desire to join the church as a matter of faith and spiritual attraction.”
      “The priest then began his sermon to the church.”
churchlessness
  1. Absence of churches.
  2. Failure to attend a church.
churchism
  1. Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is because of our insecurity and fear that we develop these defensive attitudes of parochialism and churchism.”
      “As in the case of clericalism, so it is in the case of churchism.”
churchdom
  1. The institution, government, or authority of a church.
  2. Examples:
    1. “His convictions made him a vehement antagonist of churchdom because of its stiffness of creed and Laxness of practice.”
churchmate
  1. Someone with whom one attends a church, or one who regularly goes to the same church.
churchperson
  1. A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
churchwork
  1. The work done by a church to spread religion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But from a sister-in-law who only has you in to tea occasionally as a matter of duty, and who is prominent in churchwork, one may, of course, expect anything.”
churchhouse
  1. A Quaker building used as a church and meeting-place.
churchy
  1. (mildly pejorative) one who is piously Christian
churchship
  1. The position, role, or qualities of a church.
churchward
  1. (Christianity) Obsolete spelling of churchwarden
churching
  1. (Christianity) Blessing, given ceremonially to a woman who has given birth.
churchliness
  1. The state or quality of being churchly.
  2. Synonyms:
churchgoer
  1. One who regularly goes to church; a practicing Christian.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She was a regular churchgoer, visiting the Nazarene Church on South End Street every Wednesday and Sunday.”
      “Mr Crump, who is a regular churchgoer, does not believe in Sunday shopping.”
      “Now he's a regular churchgoer and the father of three children from his second marriage.”
churchiness
  1. The quality of being churchy.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Tories don't try to wrap themselves in toe-curling churchiness as the prime minister does.”
      “Hay puts the churchiness down to the type of people who wanted to get ahead, although the parsimoniousness of Hay the elder perhaps encouraged self-help.”
      “Blair's North-East roots were really fascinating to me and also his churchiness, to put it simply.”
churchful
  1. As many as a church will hold.
churche
  1. Obsolete spelling of church
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Cloysters neer to Peters churche was converted into the serdge markett, which was before in Southgate street.”
      “This may ye se in the epistles of the churche of pergamos and Thiatira.”
      “Especially, seeing these latter troubles and perturbations of the Churche offer me so much, that unneth any vacant laisure shall be left, to intermeddle wyth matters prophane.”
churchgoing
  1. The practice of regularly attending church.
churchpeople
  1. plural of churchperson
churchpersons
churchhouses
  1. plural of churchhouse
churchgoings
  1. plural of churchgoing
churchgoers
  1. plural of churchgoer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fashionably dressed churchgoers are returning from Matins, several of them in a landau.”
      “It is believed that thousands of clergy and churchgoers are among the 350,000 British members of the Masons.”
      “Churches of all denominations and churchgoers of all ages offered their prayers.”
churchships
  1. plural of churchship
churchmates
  1. plural of churchmate
churchwards
  1. plural of churchward
churchdoms
  1. plural of churchdom
churchings
  1. plural of churching
churchisms
churchfuls
  1. plural of churchful
churchies
  1. plural of churchy
churches
  1. plural of church
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