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churchwarden

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted accdehhnrruwStarts with CEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters

Word origin

From Middle English cherchewardeyn, chirchewardeyn, churchewardeyn, schyrsche wordeyn; equivalent to church + warden.

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  • One important office that has survived for over 800 years is that of the churchwarden, established in the middle of the 12th century.
  • In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.

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