What's the difference between churchly and churchy?

Churchly


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
  • (3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
  • (7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
  • (8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
  • (9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
  • (10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
  • (11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
  • (12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
  • (13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
  • (14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
  • (15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
  • (16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
  • (17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
  • (18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
  • (19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
  • (20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.

Churchy


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I was listenting to it Ben thought it sounded like church music, because with the classical music behind it it might sound a bit churchy.
  • (2) "I Googled 'cool singing groups' because I didn't want to go somewhere churchy," he says.

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