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

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

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

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