"churchlike" meaning in English

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        "2": "kirklyk"
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  "etymology_text": "From church + -like. Compare Scots kirklyk, kirklike (“ecclesiastical”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more churchlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most churchlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 5, in Jane Eyre",
          "text": "The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect […]",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 13, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 69",
          "text": "The court was filled. Some people even stood behind the churchlike benches in the rear.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 29, Cintra Wilson, “These Jewels Look Smaller in France”, in New York Times",
          "text": "This is […] a break with the practice at American diamond stores, where shopping for engagement rings is a solemnized and somewhat stressfully churchlike experience of awe and trembling before the altar of massive debt.",
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        "Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service."
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        [
          "church",
          "church"
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          "worship",
          "worship"
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        {
          "word": "churchical"
        },
        {
          "word": "churchly"
        },
        {
          "word": "churchy"
        },
        {
          "word": "ecclesiastical"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "churchlike"
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    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "kirklike",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From church + -like. Compare Scots kirklyk, kirklike (“ecclesiastical”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more churchlike",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most churchlike",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 5, in Jane Eyre",
          "text": "The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 13, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 69",
          "text": "The court was filled. Some people even stood behind the churchlike benches in the rear.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 29, Cintra Wilson, “These Jewels Look Smaller in France”, in New York Times",
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        {
          "word": "churchical"
        },
        {
          "word": "churchly"
        },
        {
          "word": "churchy"
        },
        {
          "word": "ecclesiastical"
        }
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