church triumphant
noun Theology.
those Christians in heaven who have triumphed over evil and the enemies of Christ.
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Nearby words
- church school,
- church slavic,
- church slavonic,
- church suffering,
- church text,
- church visible,
- church, frederick edwin,
- churched,
- churchgoer,
- churchill
Compare church militant.
Origin of church triumphant
First recorded in 1545–55
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019