churchless

adjective

Definition of churchlessnext
as in unchurched

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for churchless
  1. unchurched
  2. godless
  3. irreligious
  4. pagan
  5. nonreligious
Adjective
  • Churches provided a place and a space for grieving, contemplation and reflection on the part of the great unchurched majority of the nation and for adherents of minority faiths.
    Town & Country, Town & Country, 5 May 2023
  • But American and European societies are now highly plural and increasingly unchurched.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
Definition of unchurched
Adjective
  • Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of godless
Adjective
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
    Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Definition of irreligious
Adjective
  • Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In a memorandum released last year, Allen's attorneys outlined an alternate theory of the girls' killings, saying evidence found at the scene mimicked rituals from a pagan Norse religion called Odinism.
    Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of pagan
Adjective
  • About twice as many nonreligious voters as religious voters rate it the most important issue.
    Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But the move prompted a coalition of parents — Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious — to sue the state days later in federal court.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
Definition of nonreligious
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