[See -SHIP.] The position, quality or action of a churchman.
c. 1680. in Somers, Tracts, I. 265. It is well for the Church, that she needs not apprehend any Retrospect into her Behaviour; since, as Times go with Churchmanship [etc.].
1696. Growth of Deism in Eng., 19. Your Churchmanship will not appear by any Mark so well, as by the Hatred you bear to all Dissenters.
1849. Newland, Lect. Tractar., 8. Decisive proof of general advance in Churchmanship.
1872. Spectator, 7 Sept., 1130. To teach the Bishop truer churchmanship, and the Duke nobler tactics.
1883. American, VII. 23. The essence of High Churchmanship.
