Church of England
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3.7
- proper noun
:
Iglesia de Inglaterra
- So here in Britain we have the Church of England, the official established state church, which opposes equal marriage.
- minister of the Church of England
- Church of England leaders
- Church of England's reform effort
Like maybe you want to sort of get the Church of England out of the House of Lords.
- Like maybe you want to sort of get the Church of England out of the House of Lords.
- Currently Michael, the Church of England is looking at using gender neutral pronouns for God.
- I mean, this Archbishop is turning people away from religion or certainly from the Church of England in their droves.
- Well, I never say never stronger establishments have fallen in human history than the Church of England.
- So here in Britain we have the Church of England, the official established state church, which opposes equal marriage.
- And so he starts out with that and then eventually he becomes a, a Christian and he joins the Anglican Church, Church of England.
- They wanted to get out of the Church of England and finally out of England.
- Who knows what the Church of England vicars are like?
- Hobbes is devoted to the Church of England because that's what the English have.
- The slaves were stamped CC of E Church of England, and it was stamped on the back Church of England.
- They used to call the Church of England was was known as the Tory party at prayer what they called them.
- And, you know, the recent scandal about the Church of England is, you know, he, he, he, he has actually done the right thing in resigning.
Examples
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The Supreme Governor of the Church of England, she drew on her deep faith.
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She'd been raised in the Church of England, in a calm, upper-middle-class family.
Fiction book (1990) -
Do you mean the Church of England?
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We came to seek freedom from the Church of England.
Fiction book (2000) -
In 1985, the Church of England published two significant reports.
Academic text (2017) -
I'm from the Protestant Church of England.
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For all its faults, the Church of England remains expert at such events.
Blog text (9) -
In this position, the Church of England could accumulate power and define cultural traditions.
Academic text (2002) -
We believe that, for the most part, the clergy of the Church of England have tried faithfully to preserve their tradition.
Academic text (2002) -
By some estimates, more than 25 million people in England identify with the Church of England as their denomination.
Synonyms
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4.1
A Christian church that began in England with the British king or queen as its head
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the (national) Christian church associated with England' is directly and compositionally derived from 'church' + 'of' + 'England' — a B1 learner who knows those words will readily infer it refers to the church belonging to or based in England. The genitive/association pattern 'X of Y' is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward English composition, so this expression is transparent to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Church of England comes from the 1500s when King Henry VIII set up a separate church for the country; it literally means the church of England because the English king or queen became its head. So, Church of England now means the main Christian church in England, led by the British king or queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury.