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Antonyms for churchman
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : church-muh n |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɜrtʃ mən |
Definition of churchman
Origin :- mid-13c., from church (n.) + man (n.).
- As in clergyman : noun minister
- As in cleric : noun preacher
- My father may grumble over his beer jugs, but he's a Churchman and a Tantivy for all that.
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Neither is it allowable in a Churchman when armed to confess it.
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete » by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
- Her father—my wife's, I mean—was about as high a churchman as he could be, and be married.
- Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet
- It is by no means clear that we are concerned to study him as a churchman at all.
- Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
- Such a letter is calculated to shock us in our modern notions of a churchman.
- Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
- He took his temperature, rang for his drops, and turned to the Churchman.
- Extract from : « The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) » by Edith Wharton
- The people, admitted so staunch a churchman as Pole, were beginning to hate the priests.
- Extract from : « Henry VIII. » by A. F. Pollard
- They had a Churchman in the chair, and Priestley was not present.
- Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
- Witness this testimony found in "The Churchman" for May 2, 1908.
- Extract from : « Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls » by Various
- I am a Churchman,—the young man said,—by education and habit.
- Extract from : « The Professor at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)
Synonyms for churchman
- abbey
- archbishop
- bible thumper
- bishop
- blackcoat
- cardinal
- cassock
- chaplain
- churchman
- churchwoman
- clergyman
- clergywoman
- cleric
- clerical
- clerk
- curate
- dean
- devil dodger
- divine
- ecclesiast
- ecclesiastic
- evangelist
- father
- harp polisher
- minister
- missionary
- monsignor
- padre
- parson
- pastor
- pontiff
- preacher
- predicant
- priest
- primate
- pulpitarian
- pulpiteer
- rabbi
- rector
- reverend
- sermonizer
- shepherd
- sky pilot
- sky scout
- the rev
- turn-around collar
- vicar
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