Churchmen in a sentence

There is no motley cast, of course, no churchmen, no Quasimodo, no Esmeralda.

They could seek legal advice (all lawyers in the medieval world were churchmen) and submit to royal justice.

Although they wrote about the adventures of their ancestors, churchmen could only imagine the pagan ways that had disappeared.

Nine of the new cardinals are under age 80 and will be eligible to vote in a conclave; four elderly churchmen will receive red hats as a sign of esteem and honor.

There was much public and behind the scenes wrangling, threats from some civil rights leaders and moderate churchmen to boycott the March.

John Newton was one of the most respected and loved churchmen in England in the 18th-century.

A comic character called Smike impersonates a priest at one stage – which drew the ire of the local churchmen.

The meeting, scheduled for Feb. 21-24, would assemble more than 100 churchmen to represent every bishops' conference.

Although the Authorised King James Version is ostensibly the production of a learned committee of churchmen, it is mostly cribbed from Tyndale with some reworking of his translation." citation.

At the demands of embarrassed churchmen, the book was burned.

By purifying the two parts of man's soul, man could be reunited with God. citation In the 14th century, alchemy became more accessible to Europeans outside the confines of Latin speaking churchmen and scholars.

Charters are documents which granted land to followers or to churchmen, and which would be witnessed by the kings who had power to grant the land.

Charters were documents which granted land to followers or to churchmen and were witnessed by the kings who had the authority to grant the land.

Churchmen attended royal feasts as well as meetings of the Royal Council.

During Henry's reign, the Papacy developed a strong, central bureaucracy, supported by benefices granted to absent churchmen working in Rome.

Evidence of the relationship between kings can come from charters, which were documents which granted land to followers or to churchmen, and which were witnessed by the kings who had power to grant the land.

Foreign churchmen and native elites were energetic in furthering the interests of Christianity, which was now no longer operating only on a missionary footing, and old ideologies and lifestyles were transforming.

He had an economic interest in the enslavement of the Hispaniola natives and for that reason was not eager to baptize them, which attracted criticism from some churchmen.

He thought that the pope and churchmen have no right or grounds at all for secular rule like having property, citing 2 Tim. 2:4.

He would not interfere with ecclesiastical affairs and churchmen would avoid secular services.