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Churchly

adjective
1.
Resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church.  "The pure fragrance of churchly incense"





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"Churchly" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Parsifal" is built upon and further developed into a style almost characterized by its rich and subtle and incessant modulations. Old and mixed modes make their appearance in it. The thematic material is originally turned, oftentimes broad and churchly and magnificent; the movement of the Franckian themes being a distinct invention. The harmony is full and varied and brilliant. But it is pre-eminently the seraphic sweetness of Franck's style that distinguishes his music and sets it over against this other that is so hard of edge ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld
... deepened her distress was the fact that in repudiating him his last wife had carried off all his small possessions, and there was no money left to bury him. Now, not to be buried with due and fitting ceremonies and the displayed insignia of some churchly Buryin' Society, is a calamity and a disgrace. Emma felt that she could never hope to hold up her head again if Cassius had to ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler


Words linked to "Churchly" :   religious, church


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