clergyman
clergyman
Definition
clergy·man (-mən)
noun pl. -·men-mən
a member of the clergy; minister, priest, rabbi, etc.
clergyman
Synonyms
clergyman
Usage Examples
Possessives
- daughter: What business had she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, to turn up her nose at you!
- son: The deceased clergyman's elder son - Captain J A Hope of the 2nd.
- widow: He also directed neat houses to be built for four clergymen's widows, to whom he bequeathed £ 10 per annum.
Preposition: of
- parish: A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the parish, that cannot be expected from me.
- church: Many of the first emigrants were clergymen of the Presbyterian church who settled in Virginia.
Converse of object
- officiate: The Rev. Bernard Sylvester Child, B.A. , is the present officiating clergyman.
- benefice: Several series in the archive provide information on the careers of beneficed clergymen.
- ordain: On the left, my maternal great-great-great-grandfather, Ballard Ezekiel Gibson, an ordained clergyman.
- marry: The following February, Catherine's mother informed William that her daughter was to marry a clergyman, who was fifteen years her senior.
- appoint: He does not even appoint a clergyman to preside there.
- become: Reverend Jenkins on September 11th 1826 became the first clergyman appointed to the Holy Trinity Church.
Adjective modifier
- Protestant: At the scaffold he was approached by a Protestant clergyman who asked him to confess his treason.
- evangelical: In 1861 the then " central authorities " refused to appoint an evangelical clergyman to St Thomas ' Newcastle.
- retired: I am a retired clergyman who is somewhat disillusioned with the established Church.
- Victorian: The six pages are a response to doubts about his theory expressed by the campaigning Victorian clergyman the Rev William Denton.
- senior: It was worn by a senior clergyman during special religious processions.
- English: His father was a merchant and his mother the daughter of an English clergyman.
Noun used with modifier
- parish: Figures of £ 25,000 pounds have been proposed as the cost of a parish clergyman.
- country: Monica le Doux Newton was born in Belper, Derbyshire in 1912; the daughter of a country clergyman.
- century: His framework is a book by a 19th century clergyman, the Rev Edward Duke, The Druidical Temples of the County of Wiltshire.
clergyman Quotes
Thereisa species of personcalleda'ModernChurchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
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