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单词 mother church
释义 mother church
noun
1. archaic : a parish church
 < the mother churches … and rural chapels in the late Saxon and early Norman periods — Bulletin of Institute of Historical Research >
2. : the principal church of a locality or land; specifically : a cathedral or a metropolitan church
 < the mother church … which no visitor to these parts should fail to see — T.I.Ellis >
3. : the original church from which others have sprung
 < the mother church of Unitarianism in America — Leo Pfeffer >
4. : the original church or communion in which a person has been nurtured
 < returning to his mother church, he died in obscurity — K.S.Latourette >
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