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churchmanship

  • a word derived from churchman.
    churchman
    noun
    an ecclesiastic; clergyman.

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Future seminary-student-raids upon the pantry, abetted by President Coffin, are likely to affect the character of Protestant churchmanship for a generation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says he: "I'm not interested in high or low churchmanship but deep churchmanship."

From Time Magazine Archive

As a point in practical churchmanship, this question faced 94 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Manhattan, in solemn session assembled in Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

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Cardinal Hayes was swift to approve, swift to perceive what a stroke of churchmanship the plan was.

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I had been educated in an extremely narrow churchmanship, that of the evangelical party.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley