churchward
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of churchward
First recorded in 1325–75, churchward is from the Middle English word chircheward. See church, -ward
Example Sentences
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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
The paths were decorously enlivened with family and neighborhood groups, bound churchward; and the rumble of the organ, playing the people into their pews, shook on the air.
From The Conquest of Canaan by Booth Tarkington
He answered not, but churchward went, Viewing his draughts with discontent; And fumbled there the livelong day Till, hollow-eyed, he came away.
From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Thomas Hardy
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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