Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a church; one in communion with and belonging to a church.
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Examples
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I got an email today from a friend seeking advice for a fellow church-member who has grandchildren literally all over the globe, including in Europe and Africa.
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I am a father and a husband and a business owner and a friend and a church-member and several other things.
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They were so starved that Nicholas Upsall, a Puritan church-member, bribed the jailer with five shillings a week to allow him to bring food to them.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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Addison was ostensibly a church-member, a model citizen; he represented a point of view to which Cowperwood would never have stooped.
The Titan 2004
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JOHN FREEMAN, a free colored man, seized in Indianapolis, and claimed as the slave of Pleasant Ellington, a Methodist church-member, (Summer, 1853,) of Missouri.
The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Sam Amos used to say -- Sam wasn't a church-member himself -- that there was some advantages about bein 'a Babtist after all; you did have to go under the water, but then you had the right to grumble.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall
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'Brother,' said his fellow church-member, as he gently nudged his arm.
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong
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This gives us an idea of the radical change that must take place before a person can become a true church-member.
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Could God hold her, rigorous church-member, fond wife and mother as she was, guilty of this boy's blood?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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It is always worse for a church-member to do an immoral act, and teach an immoral sentiment, than for an immoral man, because it does greater mischief.
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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