churchwoman
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Appointing a woman as Bishop of Oxford is an opportunity that should not be wasted, a leading churchwoman has said.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2014
Georgiana Sibley today is probably the world's best-known U.S. churchwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Good churchwoman, she built the Episcopal residence at Manila, helped build the Episcopal cathedral there.
From Time Magazine Archive
It takes no effort of imagination to calculate what talk like that must do to a proud father and a mother who is a devout churchwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Charity Coe, the devout churchwoman, this picture was appalling.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
In 1884, churchwomen gave the quilt to the Rev. Andrew Judson Sturtevant and his wife, Ella, who were moving away.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2016
On Dec. 1, 1980, two churchwomen, Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel, spent the night at the American Embassy in San Salvador as guests of Ambassador Robert E. White and his wife.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2015
More churchmen, as well as churchwomen, are beginning to agree that there is something to gibe about.
From Time Magazine Archive
He presided over a swearing-in, sat on the carpeted floor with delighted schoolchildren visitors, charmed a delegation of Methodist churchwomen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Leigh was, and had been from her youth, one of those noble old English churchwomen, without superstition, and without severity, who are among the fairest features of that heroic time.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles
