"churchling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From church + -ling.",
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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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        "A church-goer."
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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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        "A mere churchman."
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        "(sometimes diminutive) A mere churchman."
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          "text": "'I thought you were going to show us some swordcraft, churchling, not dance steps.' Arlin's tone was mocking. 'Sorry, I mistook you for a girl.'",
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        "A bigoted churchman."
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        "(derogatory) A bigoted churchman."
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          "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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