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churchful

churchful noun: as many as a church will hold.

Noun

churchful (plural churchfuls or churchesful)

  1. As many as a church will hold.
    • Some folks seem to think that they are going to heaven by whole churchesful. They feel that God sees and hears the congregation worship as a mass or collective group of people. Jesus called the disciples one by one and only twelve. He preached to the masses but when it came to the more personal...1963 November 16, Guy R. Baer, “Saturday Sermonette”, in Public Opinion, volume 95, number 102, Chambersburg, Pa., page three
    • "You get to yell at a whole churchful of people every Sunday."2010, Andrea Boeshaar, Uncertain Heart, Realms, →ISBN, page 242

Forms of churchful

pluralchurchfuls
pluralchurchesful

Origin of churchful

From church + -ful.

Questions about churchful

What does churchful mean?
Churchful means as many as a church will hold.
What part of speech is churchful?
Churchful is a noun.
What is the plural of churchful?
The plural of churchful is churchfuls.

Words near churchful in the dictionary

  1. Churcher
  2. Churchers
  3. churches
  4. churches of ease
  5. churchesful
  6. churchful
  7. churchfuls
  8. Churchgate
  9. churchgoer
  10. churchgoers
  11. churchgoing

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