Word.ws English Dictionary

church-ridden

church-ridden adjective: dominated by the church or churches.

Adjective

church-ridden (comparative more church-ridden, superlative most church-ridden)

  1. Dominated by the church or churches.
    • […] to a Nation of Papists, as the whole People then were, and proposed to remain such, it was thought necessary to procure the further Security of a Dispensation from the See of Rome, without which it might be possible, for Ecclesiasticks, in the Reign of some future Church-ridden Prince, to...1748, anonymous author, The State Preferable to the Church, London: M. Cooper, page 49
    • It was a law introduced by Juarez, and named after him, by which the equal rights of all citizens was established. But a stout battle followed, in which, for reasons we have seen, the parish priests were on the side of the people, and the higher dignitaries of the church—in a land long...1865 August 19, “Throned upon Thorns”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, number 330, page 83

Examples of church-ridden in a sentence

  • And now he told the members of Local Leesville what he thought of those tea-party revolutionists who pandered to the respectability of a church-ridden community.1919, Upton Sinclair, Jimmie Higgins, Pasadena, Chapter III, Part II, p. 27:
  • There was actually no question of treason to the tsar, nor could be in a front which included the Church-ridden peasants; the common enemy was Kaftyrev and his local administration only.1943, G. D. R. Phillips, “Colonisation: Russo-Buryat Revolt”, in Dawn in Siberia: The Mongols of Lake Baikal, London: Frederick Muller...

Forms of church-ridden

comparativemore church-ridden
superlativemost church-ridden

Origin of church-ridden

From church + -ridden.

Questions about church-ridden

What does church-ridden mean?
Church-ridden means dominated by the church or churches.
How do you use church-ridden in a sentence?
And now he told the members of Local Leesville what he thought of those tea-party revolutionists who pandered to the respectability of a church-ridden community.
What part of speech is church-ridden?
Church-ridden is an adjective.

Words near church-ridden in the dictionary

  1. church-goers
  2. church-going
  3. church-load
  4. church-loads
  5. Church-of-Englandism
  6. church-ridden
  7. Church-Rosser properties
  8. Church-Rosser property
  9. Church-Rosser theorem
  10. Church-Turing thesis
  11. church-yard

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: church-ridden (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “church-ridden.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/church-ridden. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.