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Definition of "low-church" [low•-church]

  • Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to <contr>high-church</contr>. See High Church, under high. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "low-church" in a sentence
  • "This inner conflict led him to reject what he considered the puritanical and "thwarted views on Sex" that governed the low-church communities in which he had grown up."
  • "And usually the side that was low-church rather than high-church."
  • "Suddenly, during the sermon, my minister, a low-church convert from heaven knows where, started chanting Abortion is murder."