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.

Preposition: of

• parish: A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the parish, that cannot be expected from me.

Converse of object

• officiate: The Rev. Bernard Sylvester Child, B.A. , is the present officiating clergyman.

• 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.