What is the difference between sanctuary and church?
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A place of safety, refuge or protection.
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, chapter=Foreword An area set aside for protection.
A state of being protected, asylum.
The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
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Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
* Acts 20:28, New International Version:
(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
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(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
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A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
* 2007 , Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America ,
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*:Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 36:
*:Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched .
(label) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
As nouns the difference between sanctuary and church
is that sanctuary is a place of safety, refuge, or protection while church is a Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.As a verb church is
to conduct a religious service for (a woman) after childbirth.As a proper noun Church is
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(wikipedia sanctuary)Noun
(sanctuaries)citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary ,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’}}
- My car is a sanctuary , where none can disturb me except for people who cut me off.
- The bird sanctuary has strict restrictions on visitors so the birds aren't disturbed.
- The government granted sanctuary to the defector, protecting him from his former government.
Synonyms
* haven * presbytery * refuge * zoar * shelterExternal links
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Alternative forms
* churche (obsolete)Noun
- There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
- These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
- The Church''' of England separated from the Roman Catholic '''Church in 1534.
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- Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions,
- She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.