Definitions for mother-church

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mother-church mother church

Mother-Church is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in mother-church (-ccehhhmorrtu).

Definitions for mother-church

noun

1. a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
2. a cathedral or a metropolitan church.
3. the church attended in one's youth or for the greater part of one's life.

Origin of mother-church

Middle English word dating back to 1275-1325

Examples for mother-church

Your name is not your own until mother church has put it properly upon you.

I am thinking of the curse that mother church has put upon this house.

All the Yucatecans will gladly join in a jest at the expense of mother church.

The mother church of Penzance is that of Madron a short distance away.

In 1895 the way opened for him to enter the service of his mother church.

Nay, what would become of the infallibility of mother church herself?

mother church can be rigid, but at times—bless her—she can think like a $700-an-hour K Street lawyer.

mother church is understandably sensitive when it comes to schisms.

He and mother church—from whose tender embrace I myself have regrettably lapsed—will both be made out to be appalling hypocrites.

One of the oldest, if not the mother church in Linn county, is that at Lisbon.