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churching

churching noun: the ceremonial blessing of a woman who has given birth. Also the present participle and gerund of church.

Noun

churching (countable and uncountable, plural churchings)

  1. The ceremonial blessing of a woman who has given birth.
    • The churching of women traditionally includes thanksgiving for the women's survival of childbirth.
    • The clergyman had to dine some distance from town, and had got two churchings, three christenings, and a funeral, to perform in something less than an hour.1834, Charles Dickens, “The Bloomsbury Christening”, in Sketches by Boz

Also used as

churching is also the present participle and gerund of church.

Forms of churching

pluralchurchings

Questions about churching

What does churching mean?
Churching means the ceremonial blessing of a woman who has given birth.
What part of speech is churching?
Churching is a noun.
What is the plural of churching?
The plural of churching is churchings.

Words near churching in the dictionary

  1. Churchillian
  2. Churchilliana
  3. Churchillians
  4. churchily
  5. churchiness
  6. churching
  7. churchings
  8. churchish
  9. churchism
  10. churchisms
  11. churchite

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