What is "churchgoing"

Usage examples of "churchgoing".

Yet, it would be a sin to think about that if she had been a churchgoing Christian.

Not only is churchgoing perfunctory or absent, but in all ranks of life there is a disposition to make it a day of rest and amusement--sometimes the amusement rather than the rest.

Both were churchgoing Methodists, and neither, on first inspection, seemed a likely suspect for child abuse, though that would be looked into, too.

From all accounts, Ridgeway was a quiet churchgoing man, well-liked and respected by people in the community.

Children wincing in the sun, women in sun hats, men shading their eyes from the glare as if the past possessed some quality of light we no longer experience, a Sunday dazzle that caused people in their churchgoing clothes to tighten their faces and stand at an angle to the future, somewhat averted it seemed, wearing fixed and finedrawn smiles, skeptical of something in the nature of the box camera.

He was a solid, churchgoing man with a proclaimed passion for the United States, and a streak of cruelty wide enough to accommodate a tractor-trailer.

I confess I was never a churchgoing man myself, sir, to my regret, but my pa always contended that a bucketful of prayer never hurt no one and my dear ma, God bless her dear soul, fair wore out her knees on the church planking.

The Catholicism of the Matern family, as one might expect of a family of millers, was dependent on the wind, and since there was always a profitable breeze on the Island, the Matern mill ran year in year out, deterring them from the excessive churchgoing that would have antagonized the Mennonites.

He would have gone to jail for a long time if the company had found out, and his very churchgoing wife would have been disgraced.

Hard work, a persevering attitude toward marriage, regular churchgoing, and a good wife had taken him to the number-two management position at the arsenal.

A lot of fine, churchgoing people had made judgments and found him lacking just because of what his mother had done for a living.

What good is all that diligent churchgoing if none of the rest of the deal is real?

Brought up in a strict churchgoing protestant area, I soon refused to accept implicitly the teachings of the orthodox church, knowing that the Bible is only a collection of legends, translated and mistranslated many times.