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national church
noun
- an independent church within a country, usually representing the prevalent religion.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of national church1
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Example Sentences
There was good principle in the National Church, but evil caused much of it to be unseen, though some of it remained manifest.
More than this, Jacobitism brought the National Church into peril of downright schism.
But until the time of Priestley few ever disputed the advantages derivable from a National Church.
Even in modern Russia some of this dignity pertains to the emperor, as the supreme head of the national church.
The evil belonged to the individuals and to the period, not by any means to the system of a National Church.
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