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unchurched

American  
[uhn-churcht] / ʌnˈtʃɜrtʃt /

adjective

  1. not being a member of a church; not attending any church.


Etymology

Origin of unchurched

First recorded in 1675–85; un- 1 + church + -ed 2

Example Sentences

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She said that as more people become unchurched, many patients don’t have a language for their spirituality or it’s tied up with religious trauma.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2022

While Schuller was masterful at playing to a global TV audience, including the curious and unchurched, the diocese is still figuring out how to evangelize in the Internet age.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2019

Washington in particular has an unchurched, environmentally-conscious population, making it a natural leader of these changes.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2019

The Clark Sisters sang “Is My Living in Vain,” toying with the song’s melody and rhythm with the same sanctified instinct that Franklin introduced to millions of unchurched Americans in the 1960s and ’70s.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018

Even the Quakers, the most unchurched apparently of any, who renounced the visible ministry, and the visible sacraments, made themselves presently into the most compact church of all.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

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