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churchless

American  
[church-lis] / ˈtʃɜrtʃ lɪs /

adjective

  1. without a church.

  2. not belonging to or attending any church.

  3. without church approval or ceremony.


Etymology

Origin of churchless

First recorded in 1635–45; church + -less

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This is most easily tracked in the rise of churchless Christians.

From Salon Mar. 28, 2024

And what about the “kind-ofs,” the churchless Protestants, the “raised Catholics,” and the cultural Jews who don’t attend services and for whom religion is more of an inherited abstraction than a lived experience?

From Slate Oct. 18, 2021

“I am so sad that a place of prayer and solace has become a place of fear,” said Kim Jeong-ja, 58, a churchless churchgoer in Seoul.

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2020

Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in setting up a regular circuit of campfire meetings in 1940 for churchless southwestern areas.

From Time Magazine Archive

We thought to scare this minion of the King Back from her churchless commerce with the King To the fond arms of her first love, Fitzurse, Who swore to marry her.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

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