| 释义 |
ˈchurch-woman
[cf. churchman.]
A female member of the church, spec. of the Church of England.
1722De Foe Rel. Courtsh. App. (1840) 285 If I were a church woman, and my mistress a dissenter. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 75 Though she is a violent church-woman..she would have no objection, at present, to treat on the score of matrimony with an Anabaptist, Quaker, or Jew. 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind xxi. 169 A Church-woman ought not to suffer herself to become attached to a man outside her own Church. |