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churchmanship

churchmanship noun: the craft or skill of being a churchman.

Noun

churchmanship (countable and uncountable, plural churchmanships)

  1. The craft or skill of being a churchman.
    • […] partly because of their “more Roman than the Romans” style of churchmanship, but also for fear of upsetting Anglicans and the Church of England […] .2009 October 21, Ruth Gledhill, ‘Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn’, The Times
    • His parents had brought Hicks up as an evangelical but his churchmanship seems to have become much more moderate.2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War

Forms of churchmanship

pluralchurchmanships

Origin of churchmanship

From churchman + -ship. Compare statesmanship.

Words formed from churchmanship

Questions about churchmanship

What does churchmanship mean?
Churchmanship means the craft or skill of being a churchman.
What part of speech is churchmanship?
Churchmanship is a noun.
What is the plural of churchmanship?
The plural of churchmanship is churchmanships.

Words near churchmanship in the dictionary

  1. churchloads
  2. churchly
  3. churchman
  4. churchmanly
  5. Churchmans
  6. churchmanship
  7. churchmanships
  8. churchmaster
  9. churchmasters
  10. churchmate
  11. churchmates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: churchmanship (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.

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