"churchling" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: churchlings [plural]
Etymology: From church + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|church|ling}} church + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} churchling (plural churchlings)
  1. A church-goer.
    Sense id: en-churchling-en-noun-SKe8-bW4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ling Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 7 37 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ling: 51 14 34
  2. (sometimes diminutive) A mere churchman. Tags: diminutive, sometimes
    Sense id: en-churchling-en-noun-6Q5NTLEg
  3. (derogatory) A bigoted churchman. Tags: derogatory
    Sense id: en-churchling-en-noun--qfSWqL8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: worldling

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1956, David Wesley Soper, Epistle to the skeptics",
          "text": "Neither worldling nor churchling privately possesses his love. The churchling, in prayer and praise, is or ought to be alert to the divine summons as the worldling is not; in race relations and common justice it is sometimes the other way around.",
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          "ref": "1903, The Independent",
          "text": "\" [...] And,\" he added, \"it transforms a churchling into a Christian to come into contact with the Pope.\"",
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          "ref": "1904, Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, The letters of Charles Lamb",
          "text": "You do not tell me of those romantic land bays that be as thou goest to Lover's Seat: neither of that little churchling in the midst of a wood (in the opposite direction, nine furlongs from the town), that seems dropped by the Angel [...]",
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          "ref": "2012, Elspeth Cooper, Songs of the Earth",
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