churchish

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churchish

/ˈtʃɜːtʃɪʃ/ UK
/-əʃ/ UK
/ˈt͡ʃɚt͡ʃɪʃ/ US
/-əʃ/ US

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From church + -ish.

adjective more churchish · most churchish

rare Like a church; (solidly or piously) Christian. He does not embrace with the same churchish charity all of the poor, white as well as black, as Dr. King docs in demanding a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" — a federal government effort to compensate for deprivation and discrimination.
Similar: churchical, churchlike, churchy, churchish, churchly, ecclesial, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical
comparative, rare Participating in the world at large; ecumenical, mainstream, non-insular. Simplistically put, churchish British national revivals compare to semi-churchish Australian revivals, to semi-churchish regional Canadian revivals, and un-churchish American national revivals.

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@misc{churchish_2026,
  title = {churchish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/churchish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}