churchly

[ church-lee ]

adjective

1. of or appropriate for the church or a church; ecclesiastical:

   churchly vestments.

churchly

/ ˈtʃɜːtʃlɪ /

adjective

1. appropriate to, associated with, or suggestive of church life and customs

Derived Forms

• ˈchurchliness, noun

Other Words From

• churchli·ness noun
• un·churchly adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of churchly¹

before 900; Old English ciriclīc, equivalent to cirice church + -līc -ly

Example Sentences

It has a very churchly look, and if the steeple were at the other end, it would be equally orthodox.

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Another churchly memory at Aoste is a tablet inscribed with the particulars of the flight of Calvin from his refuge here in 1541.

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Between his attendance to churchly duties and that of the Honorable Heman Atkins there was a great gulf fixed.

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And this, mark you, though I was still unshriven, and he had never named the churchly rite to me.

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She lived in an old-fashioned part of an old city, and her family was churchly and conscientious.

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