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churchianity|tʃɜːtʃɪˈænɪtɪ|
Also churchanity.
[f. church, after Christianity.]
A dyslogistic term for: Devotion to the Church rather than to Christianity.
1837B. Barton Select. (1849) 15 It would say little, indeed, for Lucy's Churchanity or my Quakerism. 1866Pall Mall G. 24 Feb. 11 We have lived to see this stanch Liberal..adopting..a policy of strong churchianity. 1883O. Johnson W. L. Garrison & Times 369 They discriminated also between Christianity and churchianity, between piety and piosity'. 1888Scottish Leader 15 Oct. 3 Preaching ‘churchianity’ not Christianity. |