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Meanings of kirk in English
Type of legal entity for the Church of Norway.
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Examples for "church"
Examples for "church"
1
It was the single most democratic system of church government in Europe.
2
Reporting on court stories, particularly cases involving church leaders, provides unique challenges.
3
The church's annual assembly takes place in Belfast this week, beginning today.
4
He led a way where political and church leaders soon would follow.
5
Payne asked, 'Haven't they heard of the separation of church and state?'
1
The throng overflowed into the Lower Temple; into the old church building.
2
From Monday through Friday, the church building served as the school house.
3
Here, I was told, stood the first church building erected in Nazareth.
4
FLORENCE, ALA.-Ina rapidly growing city, school held in our church building.
5
The Baptists of Westmoreland did not erect a church building until 1825.
Usage of kirk in English
1
And the names must be read in the kirk for three Sundays.
2
He lingered in the dear old kirk after the rest were gone.
3
She was in the kirk when she was married-sairagainst her will.
4
He rang with his own hands the kirk-bell on the Sabbath morn.
5
But only to think of her being married in a public kirk.
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The character of the kirk was that of a democratic, puritanical theocracy.
7
The manse and the kirk could be distinguished, but not very clearly.
8
Bobby trotted around the kirk on the chance of meeting a friend.
9
In the kirk and at a funeral-that'swhen I want to laugh.
10
I reckon he were going to the kirk garth aboot the berryin'.
11
Or are ye gonnae say ye've been stitched up by the kirk?
12
He rouped the kirk-seats like potato-drills, beginning by asking for a bid.
13
Finally the kirk was a tyranny, as a democracy may well be.
14
But Cairn Edward Cameronian kirk has long been a gate of heaven.
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We'll get a long walk together if we go to the kirk.
16
Free kirk, free state, free commerce, are the breath of our nostrils.
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