church militant

church militant

noun Theology.
those Christians on earth who are engaged in a continuous war against evil and the enemies of Christ.


Origin:
1530–40

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Church militant is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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