churching
English
editNoun
editchurching (countable and uncountable, plural churchings)
- (Christianity) The ceremonial blessing of a woman who has given birth.
- The churching of women traditionally includes thanksgiving for the women's survival of childbirth.
- 1834, Charles Dickens, “The Bloomsbury Christening”, in Sketches by Boz:
- The clergyman had to dine some distance from town, and had got two churchings, three christenings, and a funeral, to perform in something less than an hour.
- 2010, Chris Given-Wilson, Fourteenth Century England VI, page 145:
- As discussed in detail by Caroline Shenton, the churchings of Queen Philippa, for which the details following Isabella's birth in 1333 survive, represented a 'gigantic festival of a family whose start in life had been extremely unsteady'.
Translations
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Verb
editchurching
- present participle and gerund of church
Polish
editEtymology
editFrom English church + -ing, modelled on clubbing.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchurching m inan
- (neologism, often humorous) selection by the faithful of a church other than their parish church every time they want to attend Mass
Declension
editDeclension of churching
singular | plural | |
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nominative | churching | churchingi |
genitive | churchingu | churchingów |
dative | churchingowi | churchingom |
accusative | churching | churchingi |
instrumental | churchingiem | churchingami |
locative | churchingu | churchingach |
vocative | churchingu | churchingi |
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