churchwoman

Example Sentences

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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

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

Before starting for the U. S. he offered his palace rent-free "to any churchman or churchwoman who will pay the salaries of the servants and the taxes on the house."

From Time Magazine Archive

A churchwoman by open profession, she was a Puritan in her sympathies, as were many of England's best hearts and souls who never left the Church of England.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse