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On a recent Saturday morning, Jeff Chu, a writer and ordinand in the Reformed Church in America—a small Protestant denomination—pushed a green grocery cart through a Whole Foods in Chattanooga, Tennessee.—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2021
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin ordinandus, gerundive of ordinare to ordain
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