church service

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church service - a service conducted in a house of worship; "don't be late for church"

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divine service, religious service, service - the act of public worship following prescribed rules; "the Sunday service"

Divine Office - canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)

church building, church - a place for public (especially Christian) worship; "the church was empty"

church bell - a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church); "church bells were ringing all over town"

crypt - a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

hassock - a cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church)

spire, steeple - a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

Puritanism - the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects)

banns - a public announcement of a proposed marriage

preaching, sermon, discourse - an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

Anglican Church, Anglican Communion, Church of England - the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head

High Anglican Church, High Church - a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)

separationist, separatist - an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)

disestablish - deprive (an established church) of its status

attend, go to - be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.; "She attends class regularly"; "I rarely attend services at my church"; "did you go to the meeting?"

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All were silently crossing themselves, and the reading of the church service, the subdued chanting of deep bass voices, and in the intervals sighs and the shuffling of feet were the only sounds that could be heard.

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It is said that she never attends any but the English form of church service.

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But Adam's thoughts of Hetty did not deafen him to the service; they rather blended with all the other deep feelings for which the church service was a channel to him this afternoon, as a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility.

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Sabbath-school hours were from nine to half-past ten; and then church service. Two of the children always remained for the sermon voluntarily, and the other always remained too -- for stronger reasons.

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That any one of these people had ever felt what she felt, or could ever feel it, or had even the right to pretend for a single second that they were capable of feeling it, appalled her much as the church service had done, much as the face of the hospital nurse had done; and if they didn't feel a thing why did they go and pretend to?

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Sir Leicester feels it incumbent on him to observe a crushing aspect towards Volumnia because it is whispered abroad that these necessary expenses will, in some two hundred election petitions, be unpleasantly connected with the word bribery, and because some graceless jokers have consequently suggested the omission from the Church service of the ordinary supplication in behalf of the High Court of Parliament and have recommended instead that the prayers of the congregation be requested for six hundred and fifty-eight gentlemen in a very unhealthy state.

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"It's all done in five minutes at a Registry Office nowadays, if you think the Church service a little florid--which it is, though there are noble things in it."

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Levin remembered that when Nikolay had been in the devout stage, the period of fasts and monks and church services, when he was seeking in religion a support and a curb for his passionate temperament, everyone, far from encouraging him, had jeered at him, and he, too, with the others.

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These informal parlor meetings, admitting of questions or conversation, are often the means of interesting those not commonly found at church services so I repeat, if any member of the congregation desires it and offers her hospitality, we will gladly stay and tell you more of the Lord's work."

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Had it not been for this, he would have been oppressed by the length and monotony of the church services, the bustle of the many visitors, and the bad qualities of the other monks.

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Herself and God, her confessor and the weekly wash, her preserves and the church services, and her uncle to care for, absorbed her feeble intellect.

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Speaking at a church service to climax the 82nd Ada Asafotufiami Festival, former President Mahama said the first phase of the sea defence project, which was completed during his administration, was helping to curb the fast rate of erosion of the beach front.