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free churchman

American  

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.

  2. (initial capital letters) a member of the Free Church of Scotland.


Etymology

Origin of free churchman

First recorded in 1840–50

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He was not a local, but a genuinely national American and free churchman.

From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by William Elliot Griffis

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