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Noun(1) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

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(1) A famous author and clergyman once said: ‘Bigotry warps the soul by shutting out the truth.’(2) Nor did Morse's father, a prominent Massachusetts clergyman , have an artistic career in mind for his oldest son.(3) One New Orleans clergyman , whose home was flooded, refused to attend.(4) I search my memory bank and remember that some Lutheran clergyman were taken to camps during the war.(5) a Catholic clergyman(6) On occasion, Evensong was conducted by a thrice-retired diminutive clergyman from the Ministry of Healing.(7) Despite the fact that his father was a landowner, town councillor, and clergyman we hear of no attempt to rescue or ransom the captive.(8) Its protagonist, an earnest but questioning clergyman , resigns his orders for a life of social service in the East End, to the distress of his devout wife Catherine.(9) Ariah begins as a stock character - the repressed, pale, clergyman 's daughter, stiff-backed with pebbly green eyes and a talent for the piano.(10) Walker, an elderly Church of Ireland clergyman , was the heart and soul of Londonderry's resistance to James II after the Glorious Revolution.(11) a Protestant clergyman(12) The Pledge, itself, came along slightly more than a century ago, the work of a socialist editor and clergyman .(13) A consistory court has the power to hear against any Anglican clergyman or woman a charge of ‘conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders’.(14) My rabbi in Brooklyn, who is a national Jewish leader, probably did not know a single Christian clergyman on a first-name basis.(15) Written in 1855, it tells the story of a middle class clergyman 's daughter who leaves Hampshire to start a new life in the northern industrial town of Milton.(16) Well, a chaplain, by anybody's dictionary, is a person - clergyman or layman - who conducts a service in a chapel.
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(1) clergyman
Synonyms
Noun
1. cleric
2. churchman
3. churchwoman
6. ecclesiastic
7. priest
8. minister
9. pastor
11. chaplain
12. father
13. bishop
14. rector
15. parson
16. vicar
17. curate
18. deacon
19. deaconess
20. monk
21. nun
22. religious
23. friar
24. sister
25. brother
26. reverend
27. padre
28. sky pilot
30. divine


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