pastoral

Used with adjective complement

• provide: It works for the spiritual and social welfare of all seafarers providing pastoral, practical outreach.

Modifies a noun

• ministry: I've spent a fair bit of my pastoral ministry dealing with people whose problems were produced by religion.
• idyll: The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early American pastoral idyll.
• care: Cells are the way we organize pastoral care within the church.
• oversight: John Wesley, under the pastoral oversight of itinerant ministers who met at an annual conference.
• theology: He is also engaged in part time doctoral work at London Bible College in the area of pastoral theology.
• epistle: Now remember I told you that " godliness " is a key word in the pastoral epistles.

Modifying Another Word

• predominantly: More recently, however, a distinction has arisen between the predominantly pastoral economy in the west and the arable fields of the east.
• very: Then there's the instrumental ' The Return of Spring ' , a very pastoral uplifting piece of folky rock.
• almost: The high trees behind made it all appear very organic, almost pastoral.
• mainly: These can be expected to have been mainly pastoral settlements exploiting what by now were impoverished moorland, much as today.
• essentially: Indications are that farming practice was essentially pastoral except during climatic optima.
• entirely: Most of the work of the District Council is entirely pastoral.

Preposition: in

• nature: Colleges are equally interested in the academic success of their graduate students, but their role is more pastoral in nature.
• character: The country between Chichester and Selsey is for the most part pastoral in character, tho beet sugar is grown.