churchwomannoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʃɜːtʃˌwʊm.ən/us/ˈtʃɝːtʃˌwʊm.ən/plural -women uk/-wɪmɪn/usa woman who is actively involved in the Church or who is a priest or official in the Church
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Religious people: believers & non-believers
- agnostic
- apophatic
- apostasy
- apostate
- atheist
- believer
- freethinker
- God-fearing
- godless
- hard core
- hard core
- heathen
- humanism
- parishioner
- pilgrim
- revisionism
- skeptic
- the laity
- theist
- unbeliever
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Religious leaders & officials
Examples from literature
- But, he said, "you are still a churchwoman?"
- It would appear that she had been a good churchwoman.
- My wife, you know, is a strict churchwoman.
- She had a small annuity, had turned herself into a most faithful churchwoman, and went to live at Ely because it was cheap and a cathedral city.
- Some years ago a party of ultra-high churchwomen decided to wear only black during Lent.