[f. CHURCHLY + -NESS.] The quality of being churchly; loyalty to the church; ecclesiasticism.
1851. Mercersburg Rev, III. 598. Alas! it is too true, that in reality, we have a false Churchliness at the expense of being Christ-like, and a false likeness to Christ, which intrudes into the place of Churchliness.
1887. C. W. Shields, in Century Mag., Dec., 262/2. It might prove a great gain to American Episcopacy to be reënforced with Presbyterian orthodoxy and churchliness.
