churchlikeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

churchlike (comparative more churchlike, superlative most churchlike)

1. Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service.

   Synonyms: churchical, churchly, churchy, ecclesiastical

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 5,^[1]

     The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect […]

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 13, p. 69,^[2]

     The court was filled. Some people even stood behind the churchlike benches in the rear.

   • 2009 January 29, Cintra Wilson, “These Jewels Look Smaller in France”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     This is […] a break with the practice at American diamond stores, where shopping for engagement rings is a solemnized and somewhat stressfully churchlike experience of awe and trembling before the altar of massive debt.