free church
noun
a church free from state control.
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[free church]
/ ˈfri ˈtʃɜrtʃ /
noun
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(sometimes initial capital letters) a church free from state control.
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(sometimes initial capital letters) a dissenting or nonconforming church.
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(initial capital letters) Also Free Kirk (in Scotland) the church established by those who left the Church of Scotland in 1843.
Free Church
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of free church
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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We stand for a free pulpit and a free church.
From Time Magazine Archive
A 1967 graduate of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, York has been backed by a number of local churches in operating a "free church" that ministers to Berke ley hippies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Should he, like the Père Hyacinth, go and found a free church in some corner of the republic, and rove through Europe, like him, to confer about morality, the rights of women and virtue?
From The Grip of Desire by Hector France
When the great split occurred in Scotland between the old and the free church, he stuck to the old, merely saying that the church of his forefathers was good enough for him.
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
There was neither a free church nor a free State?
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
In a December 2024 letter to Bass, the Rev. Mark Hopper of the Evangelical Free Church expressed similar concerns and asked the mayor to stop the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Many were friends from Siasi Tonga Tau’ataina, the Free Church of Tonga, Tuipulotu’s family being long-time members of the branches in Compton and Inglewood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
At the heart of Ms Forbes' identity is her membership of the socially conservative Free Church of Scotland, whose evangelical Christian ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland in the 19th Century.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023
At the heart of Ms Forbes' identity is her membership of the socially conservative Free Church of Scotland, whose evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland in 1843.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023
When Chalmers dies, we predict that Candlish will be the leader in the courts of the Free Church of Scotland.
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
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