单词 | church folk |
释义 | > as lemmaschurch folk church folk n. now chiefly U.S. and British regional people attending church, churchgoers; spec. members of the established church of a particular place, esp. of the Church of England (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > congregation > [noun] lathingc897 church folka1200 parishc1300 congregation1526 meeting1593 assemblya1616 society1738 pew1882 society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > supporter of > collective church folka1200 statute congregation1593 a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 155 (MED) Ech sunedai..in chirche..al chirche folc ohg to ben gadered. 1644 T. Palmer Saints Support 27 Some will goe to shew their fine cloathes, or that their neighbours may see what good Church-folke they are. ?1749 Disc. Governm. & Relig. 37 The church-folk pulled down the meeting-houses. 1869 R. Halley Lancashire II. ix. 430 Church folk were Church folk through life, and Presbyterians were Presbyterians. 1913 New Catholic World Nov. 155 ‘Miriam was chapel-born and chapel-bred,’ he argued, ‘let her stick to it. All the Drubs has been church folk’. 2010 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 3 Jan. 3/2 We met the grinding poverty, in part, by church folk looking around and deciding to take their mission to reach out to those without. < as lemmas |
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