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单词 churchquake
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churchquaken.

Brit. /ˈtʃəːtʃkweɪk/, U.S. /ˈtʃərtʃˌkweɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: church n.1, quake n., earthquake n.
Etymology: < church n.1 + quake n., after earthquake n.
A major disturbance or upheaval within the Christian Church, or within a particular denomination or branch of it.Chiefly in extended metaphors; cf. earthquake n. 2.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] > convulsion of
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1642 W. Sedgwicke Zions Deliv. 11 We could not expect our Reformation without earth-quakes, Church-quakes, and Kingdome-quakes.
1653 E. Hall Ὴ ἀποστασία ὁ ἀντίχριστος i. iii. 19 Having thus discovered the inward causes of this Church-commotion, he proceeds to discover..the extrinsick causes of this Church-quake.
1761 Sc. Portmanteau opened at York 50 What I fear now is a State-Quake; ay—and a Church-Quake too; both which all the uncommon Movements from the North but too surely portend.
1845 Sc. Congregational Mag. May 242 The alteration in their sentiments, avowed by some of our leaders,..proved like a church quake, that threw us off from reliance on men to rely on ourselves and on God.
1888 Baptist Missionary Mag. Sept. 372/1 I feel at times as though I could pray for a church-quake that would shake some ministers out of their pulpits and cause them to flee to other parts, if only for their own safety.
1909 Humanitarian Rev. May 612 The bonds of old rock-ribbed errors cause the whole church to moan, groan and tremble—cause a great religious churchquake!
1996 Furrow 47 464 The churchquake..is moving the ground under our feet and we can no more hold the past than we can stay the world around us.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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