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churchful en · NOUN

Etymology

From church + -ful.

Meanings

1. As many as a church will hold.
   • "You get to yell at a whole churchful of people every Sunday." 2010, Andrea Boeshaar, Uncertain Heart, Realms, →ISBN, page 242:
   • Some folks seem to think that they are going to heaven by whole churchesful. They feel that God sees and hears the congregation worship as a mass or collective group of people. Jesus called the disciples one by one and only twelve. He preached to the masses but when it came to the more personal things, such as healing and conversion, it was a single act. 1963 November 16, Guy R. Baer, “Saturday Sermonette”, in Public Opinion, volume 95, number 102, Chambersburg, Pa., page three:

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