Meaning

Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian..

Definitions by Sense

1. Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian.
2. (comparative religion) Participating in the world at large; ecumenical, mainstream, non-insular.

Example Sentences

He does not embrace with the same churchish charity all of the poor, white as well as black, as Dr. King docs in demanding a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" — a federal government effort to compensate for deprivation and discrimination.

Two children, a boy and a girl in naught but their shirts and barefoot, walked behind the churchish crowd and watched with studious intent the behaviour of their children,[…]

Characters drift against a churchish background; the central women like the novel do not possess Pym's usual exuberance and irony. Cooley analyzes a passage to show how Pym here subordinates comedy to realism.

Simplistically put, churchish British national revivals compare to semi-churchish Australian revivals, to semi-churchish regional Canadian revivals, and un-churchish American national revivals.

In previous centuries, both the sectish and churchish styles of evangelicalism had been evident, but in different movements (like the Salvation Army versus evangelical Anglicans) or in the same movement at different times (like Methodism in the eighteenth century versus Methodism in the late nineteenth).

Word Forms

• more churchish
• most churchish

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When Should You Use Churchish?

Use churchish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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