churchward

American  

[church-werd] / ˈtʃɜrtʃ wərd /

adverb

1. Also churchwards. toward the church.

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adjective

1. directed toward the church.

   a churchward summons.

Etymology

Origin of churchward

First recorded in 1325–75, churchward is from the Middle English word chircheward. See church, -ward

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Example Sentences

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churchward

Congregations flock churchward in their Easter best, and the churches themselves are brave with flowers; the preachers for once preach joyful sermons, the singing soars with hallelujahs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along its quiet length white people in bright clumps moved churchward, under the windy bells, walking now and then in the random and tentative sun.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

In the midst of it, I saw the person who had passed me as I examined the envelope coming up the street churchward.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various

She was taking her way churchward, but at no very quick pace; a fact not lost on one of her observers, who stood in the doorway looking after her with an air of puzzled amusement.

From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The bishop then went into the other church, in which the martyr lay, and asked the churchward, where the weapons of the saint were?

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

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