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churchmanship en · NOUN

Etymology

From churchman + -ship. Compare statesmanship.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The craft or skill of being a churchman.
   • […] partly because of their “more Roman than the Romans” style of churchmanship, but also for fear of upsetting Anglicans and the Church of England […] . 2009 October 21, Ruth Gledhill, ‘Desperate bishops invited Rome to park its tanks on Archbishop’s lawn’, The Times
   • His parents had brought Hicks up as an evangelical but his churchmanship seems to have become much more moderate. 2015, GR Evans, Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War:

Forms

Deriveds

high churchmanship