Holy Joe

noun

Definition of Holy Joenext
slang
as in priest

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  1. priest
  2. clergyman
  3. preacher
  4. churchman
  5. divine
  6. deacon
  7. reverend
  8. ecclesiastic
Noun
  • Today, dozens of parishes are in clusters that share priests and administrative resources to deal with a decline that has become more pressing over the last decade, reporter Sophie Carson found in an analysis. 17.
    Lainey Seyler, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Its 63 squares supposedly represent nine seven-year periods in a person’s life—a nod to the esoteric philosophy of Marsilio Ficino, a philosopher and Catholic priest of the early Italian Renaissance who believed that people experienced some change in their body or mind, or both, every seven years.
    John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of priest
Noun
  • The committee members, all clergymen, had been summoned to report on the progress of their work.
    Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
  • At the same time, Ukrainian authorities have become increasingly suspicious of anyone with links to the Russian Orthodox Church, arresting and convicting clergymen of spying for Moscow.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of clergyman
Noun
  • Society Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas Tara Isabella Burton A week with the street preachers of Sin City.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Falwell, among other notable preachers, criticized Carter's interview with Playboy as an example of voicing impure thoughts.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of preacher
Noun
  • Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Definition of churchman
Noun
  • Sufism, often regarded as the mystical dimension of Islam, emphasizes a personal connection with the divine.
    Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Members of Zide Door follow the Church of Ambrosia faith, which believes that psychedelics such as entheogenic, or psychoactive substances such as psilocybin mushrooms and DMT can lead to spiritual enlightenment, or access to the divine.
    Marni Rose McFall, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of divine
Noun
  • Days before the election, church deacons voted to oust their pastor for finally supporting the admission of a Black worshiper.
    Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • For instance, the Catholic Church doesn't permit a woman to be a priest or a deacon.
    Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of deacon
Noun
  • The reverends all have something poignant to say, and their sermons change by the minute.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Parents are heated after a reverend ruined the magic of Christmas for a group of children.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of reverend
Noun
  • The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.
    Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
  • Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.
    Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Definition of ecclesiastic
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