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

Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman, 69, a clergyman's widow and an outstanding Lutheran churchwoman, who denounced the church as too ceremonial, too institutional and, worst of all, too masculine.

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

Georgiana Sibley today is probably the world's best-known U.S. churchwoman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shirley was not, at that time, a churchwoman, and her account of the prayer, etc., is,— About twenty men, with the three women of the place, had assembled at the funeral.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith