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Synonyms for churchly

Grammar : Adj

Spell : church-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃɜrtʃ li

Définition of churchly

adj spiritual

Example sentences :

The tone of the whole work is fervent, elevated, and churchly.
Extract from : « Music in the History of the Western Church » by Edward Dickinson

It filled the churchly heart with anguish and bitter disappointment.
Extract from : « Day and Night Stories » by Algernon Blackwood

But dogma is not yet technical for what is Christian or churchly.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 » by Various

That he grew to perceive the childishness of churchly dogma, we know.
Extract from : « Carmen Ariza » by Charles Francis Stocking

And Cally Heth stood alone in the more than churchly stillness.
Extract from : « V. V.'s Eyes » by Henry Sydnor Harrison

Between his attendance to churchly duties and that of the Honorable Heman Atkins there was a great gulf fixed.
Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

And this, mark you, though I was still unshriven, and he had never named the churchly rite to me.
Extract from : « The Master of Appleby » by Francis Lynde

The emergence of the churchly play into the open was effected through the agency of ecclesiastic ceremonial.
Extract from : « Some Forerunners of Italian Opera » by William James Henderson

His sermons are models of churchly commonplace and full of the stock phrases of a formal religion.
Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 » by Elbert Hubbard

Such a conception was wholly opposed by theological theory and churchly dogma.
Extract from : « The Vitality of Mormonism--Brief Essays » by James E. Talmage

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