churchless

[ church-lis ]

adjective
  1. without a church.

  2. not belonging to or attending any church.

  1. without church approval or ceremony.

Origin of churchless

1
First recorded in 1635–45; church + -less

Words Nearby churchless

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How to use churchless in a sentence

  • He was churchless for ten years; but on many a battle field and in many a desert camp God met and blessed him.

    Was It Right to Forgive? | Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • It was beginning to dawn upon her that that was what Ashland was—a churchless community.

    A Voice in the Wilderness | Grace Livingston Hill
  • How was a creedless, churchless mistress of Coldbrooks to be fitted in to her happy vision of Barneys future?

    Adrienne Toner | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • She had been away, of course, a great many times before, but never to a churchless community.

    A Voice in the Wilderness | Grace Livingston Hill
  • How well could the lavish aid of $18,000 have been put to use in this churchless area!