Also churchanity. [f. CHURCH, after Christianity.] A dyslogistic term for: Devotion to the Church rather than to Christianity.
1837. B. Barton, Select. (1849), 15. It would say little, indeed, for Lucy’s Churchanity or my Quakerism.
1866. Pall Mall Gaz., 24 Feb., 11/2. We have lived to see this stanch Liberal … adopting … a policy of strong Churchianity.
1880. O. Johnson, W. L. Garrison & Times, 368. They [Abolitionists] discriminated also between Christianity and churchianity, between piety and ‘piosity,’ between sincerity and cant
1888. Scottish Leader, 15 Oct., 3. Preaching ‘churchianity’ not Christianity.
