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state church

noun, often capitalized S&C

Definition of state church

: established church

Examples of state church in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 Thanks to the state church, Britain also had unusually good birth and death records. — Kelsey Piper, Vox, "We’ve worried about overpopulation for centuries. And we’ve always been wrong.," 20 Aug. 2019 Uncensored printing offered the possibility of choice, ending the state church’s monopoly on opinion-forming. — The Economist, "The stand," 4 Nov. 2017

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First Known Use of state church

1644, in the meaning defined above

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