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Meaning of "churching" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHURCHING

churching  [ˈtʃɜːtʃɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHURCHING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Churching is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHURCHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Churching

Churching refers to the attendance of any church activity, including Sunday School, sacrament meetings, and weekday activities. Anciently, the word churching was sometimes used to refer to a specific ceremony in Eastern and the Western churches. In Catholic Ireland it referred to the practice of women having given birth having to seek readmission to the Church.

Definition of churching in the English dictionary

The definition of churching in the dictionary is the act of bringing to church for special ceremonies.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHURCHING


approaching
əˈprəʊtʃɪŋ
beseeching
bɪˈsiːtʃɪŋ
birching
ˈbɜːtʃɪŋ
catching
ˈkætʃɪŋ
Ching
tʃɪŋ
coaching
ˈkəʊˌtʃɪŋ
Kuching
ˈkuːtʃɪŋ
launching
ˈlɔːntʃɪŋ
lurching
ˈlɜːtʃɪŋ
matching
ˈmætʃɪŋ
nonteaching
nɒnˈtiːtʃɪŋ
overarching
ˌəʊvərˈɑːtʃɪŋ
scorching
ˈskɔːtʃɪŋ
screeching
ˈskriːtʃɪŋ
searching
ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ
stitching
ˈstɪtʃɪŋ
stretching
ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ
strip-searching
ˈstrɪpˌsɜːtʃɪŋ
teaching
ˈtiːtʃɪŋ
touching
ˈtʌtʃɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHURCHING

church text
church wedding
churchgoer
churchgoing
churchianity
churchier
churchiest
Churchill
Churchill Falls
Churchillian
churchism
churchless
churchliness
churchly
churchman
churchmanly
churchmanship
churchmen
churchpeople
churchward

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHURCHING

aching
anything
bewitching
birdwatching
bitching
branching
couching
English Language Teaching
enriching
etching
eye-catching
far-reaching
fetching
geocaching
hatching
itching
quenching
scratching
squelching
twitching
whale watching

Synonyms and antonyms of churching in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «churching» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHURCHING

Find out the translation of churching to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of churching from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «churching» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

churching
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

churching
570 millions of speakers

English

churching
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

churching
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

churching
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

воцерковления
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

churching
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

churching
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

churching
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gereja
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Aussegnung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

churching
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

churching
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pasamuan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

churching
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

churching
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चर्चिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Churching
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

churching
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

churching
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

воцерковлення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bisericirea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκκλησιασμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kerk gang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kyrk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kirkegang
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of churching

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHURCHING»

The term «churching» is normally little used and occupies the 131.126 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHURCHING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «churching» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «churching» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about churching

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHURCHING»

Discover the use of churching in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to churching and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in ...
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Roger Finke, Rodney Stark, 2005
2
The Discipline of the Churching Service: with Authorities
Thomas Henry WILKINSON. child in adultery or fornication without licence of his ordinary ? (Pamphlet in British Museum.) Bp. Cosin. Durham, 1662. Hath he ( your Minister) admitted any woman to her thanksgiving after childbirth before she  ...
Thomas Henry WILKINSON, 1867
3
On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, ...
A study of purification rituals centered around women and childbirth in Medieval France.
Paula M. Rieder, 2006
4
Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne
This persistent and vociferous doubt about the moral status of mothers and birth expressed in the rituals of baptism and churching in post-Reformation England can play an important role in literary attempts to adopt birth and birthing as ...
Elizabeth M. A. Hodgson, 1999
5
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe
Some of the answers offered to this question in the medieval period enlighten the individual churching ceremony. Some theologians explained that if Mary, who was a virgin, needed to be purified, then all other women who give birth are ...
Elisheva Baumgarten, 2004
6
The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the ...
At the end of the mass, the women would receive the blessed bread before anyone else attending mass.46 Scholars have debated the meaning of churching because the ritual incorporated the dual notions of women's bodies needing ...
Katherine L. French, 2008
7
Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
E.g., Finke and Stark, The Churching of America; Finke, Guest, and Stark, " Mobilizing Local Religious Markets"; Stark and [annaccone, "Response to Lechner." 17. Stark and Finke, Acts of Faith, 36. 18. It is thought that regulation, in the form of ...
Melissa J. Wilde, 2007
8
Customs and ceremonies
It appears anciently to have been customary to give a large entertainment at the churching, and previous to that at the christening. [This was formerly, and until the early part of the present century at least, if not still, known as the Upjitting, ...
John Brand, William Carew Hazlitt, 1870
9
Address to a Mother on the Churching Service
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Churching Of Women, 2011
10
Deeply Into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of Passage
In their view churching was a ceremonial cleansing of the pollution of birth, a way of treating birthing mothers as if they were taboo. But the text of the English rite makes no overt mention of purification in the way it does of thanksgiving. Before ...
Ronald L. Grimes, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHURCHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term churching is used in the context of the following news items.
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Today in history: Jan Hus burned at the stake 600 years ago
... the average Christian in Bohemia, Hus wrote, "One pays for confession, for mass, for the sacrament, for indulgences, for churching a woman, ... «People's World, Jul 15»
2
Called by the Baptists' bell
It is through my grandmother's influence that I got most of my churching; she lived mere blocks from St Therese's RC, Malick, where I was ... «Trinidad Guardian, Jun 15»
3
'Unusual' Fire at Ga. Church Brings Out ATF Investigators
"We've had plenty of good churching," Dudley said. With the break-ins they have had, Dudley can't help but think someone deliberately set the ... «Firehouse.com, Jun 15»
4
ATF investigating 'unusual' fire at Macon church
“We've had plenty of good churching,” Dudley said. With the break-ins they have had, Dudley can't help but think someone deliberately set the ... «Macon Telegraph, Jun 15»
5
Simon Danczuk 'Urged Miliband To Axe Janner' Six Months Before …
Speaking on Channel 4 News on Monday, Danczuk said he wrote to the then-Labour leader over the “stomach churching” allegations in ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
6
Pelicans News Around the Web (6-18-2015)
According to a source, they haven't brought anyone in for workouts yet, and the rumor mill has been churching up nothing for the Pelicans thus ... «Pelicans.com, Jun 15»
7
Dreaming of the Draft
According to a source, they haven't brought anyone in for workouts yet, and the rumor mill has been churching up nothing for the Pelicans thus ... «Bourbon Street Shots, Jun 15»
8
It's time to reset our pastoral strategy: Ordain married men
However much this pastoral strategy of merging/closing/mega-churching may seem to alleviate the crisis of insufficient priest personnel, ... «Crux: Covering all things Catholic, Jun 15»
9
Celebrating the Feast of the First Book of Common Prayer, 1549
... and burial, the visitation of the sick, and the churching (purification) of women after childbirth. In short, the 1549 Prayer Book was the first truly ... «Patheos, May 15»
10
Increase of non-religious Americans: What do Pew Forum numbers …
Further perspective: A Pew footnote reminds us that Roger Finke and Rodney Stark reported in “The Churching of America, 1776-1990″ that ... «GetReligion, May 15»

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