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
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
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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
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Georgiana Sibley today is probably the world's best-known U.S. churchwoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To Charity Coe, the devout churchwoman, this picture was appalling.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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
Congress also wanted assurances that the Salvadoran government was making "good faith efforts" to investigate and prosecute the murders there of four American churchwomen and two American aid officials a year ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
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New York's Bishop William Manning received a $500 check from a group of churchwomen, banked it until war's end.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Charles Kingsley