abbé

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Recent Examples of abbé After his death just five years later, the paintings were inventoried simply as depictions of the basilica and square without any mention of the poor abbe. Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
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Noun
  • Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.
    Shadi Hamid, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Wiley, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Towson, will lead an outdoor prayer service at the house of worship Tuesday night as a way of blessing the people of a country that have so often seemed bitterly divided over politics.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 5 Nov. 2024
  • It is considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic church, said Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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
Noun
  • The church hasn't been forced to close or sell it's land, the pastor says.
    Steve Osunsami, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Two years ago, Grace Evangelical's pastor, Aaron Strong, was killed by a speeding driver.
    Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.
    Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2024
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

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“Abbé.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abb%C3%A9. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.

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