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.

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Etymology

Origin of churchless

First recorded in 1635–45; church + -less

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Example Sentences

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churchless

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

That, apparently, is the special gift of Simone Weil, a Frenchwoman who died in 1943 at 34 and who has since been informally canonized as a "saint of the churchless," a "patron of the undecided."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, years later, when Christian Science came into my home, it found me prayerless, churchless, godless; a home discordant, and with no thought or knowledge of spiritual things.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

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