churchful

English

Etymology

church +‎ -ful

Noun

churchful (plural churchfuls or churchesful)

1. As many as a church will hold.
   • 1963 November 16, Guy R. Baer, “Saturday Sermonette”, in Public Opinion, volume 95, number 102, Chambersburg, Pa., page three:

     Some folks seem to think that they are going to heaven by whole churchesful. They feel that God sees and hears the congregation worship as a mass or collective group of people. Jesus called the disciples one by one and only twelve. He preached to the masses but when it came to the more personal things, such as healing and conversion, it was a single act.

   • 2010, Andrea Boeshaar, Uncertain Heart, Realms, →ISBN, page 242:

     "You get to yell at a whole churchful of people every Sunday."

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