ecclesiastically
Americanadverb
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Chaplains are expected to give faithful witness under circumstances which are less than ecclesiastically perfect, even as their fellow chaplains may proclaim a different witness.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2013
Thus at 20, the mother of a small son, she found herself legally free but ecclesiastically still married.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Primate of England is ecclesiastically outranked only by the Defender of the Faith, King George V, and the Primate of All England, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year Bishop Manning sternly forbade Dr. Coffin's performance of a communion service in another Manhattan Episcopal church, as ecclesiastically illegal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fifteen successive bishops, at any rate, ruled East Anglia ecclesiastically from Dunwich.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
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