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churchwoman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
churchwoman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For James, a gentle churchwoman with two young children, Kirschke was like no other man she had ever met.
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churchwoman

n. The female equivalent of a churchman.

Usage examples of "churchwoman".

American citizens were truly in danger: for example, the four churchwomen who were killed by government-sponsored death squads in El Salvador in 1980.

As a good churchwoman, she should not have succumbed to the baser temptations, and in time she would have her revenge on the man who had tempted her.

I paid it off because it was the charitable thing to do, as you can imagine, being a Godly churchwoman yourself, Sister.

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.

Theophanu had the intelligence of a churchwoman, hidden at times by the inscrutable eastern temperament she had inherited from her mother.

Can it be that an educated churchwoman of the apostate church no longer recalls St.

Anne and Liath had already mounted, Anne upon one,of the mules like a good churchwoman and Liath on the smaller horse, leaving Resuelto for his greater weight.

Baynes, too good a churchwoman to be worldly, would have been the last to admit--she often heard her husband describe old Jolyon as extremely well off, and was biassed towards his granddaughter for the soundest of all reasons.

Lady Lufton, I have said, was a good Churchwoman, and the archdeacon was the very type of that branch of the Church which she venerated.

In her stone-walled, carpetless, barely furnished business office, the nobly born churchwoman had confronted him, her eyes containing all the warmth of a sword blade, her lips drawn to the tight thinness of the edge of a battleaxe, her manner as frosty as winter icicles.

Every good churchman and churchwoman would be wise to read them over once a year, just to be sure that the rules were not being ignored, or worn away, or simply altered.

The emperor summoned certain wise churchwomen and men to his court, so that they could undertake to educate him and his children.

The churchwomen gathered up their plates, silver, and glasses, to trek them back to the Saint Luke's kitchen for washing.

Fritz called the priest from the hospital and the churchwomen set up a phone tree.