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Recent Examples of parson
Her father, Patrick Brontë, was the parson of the local parish.
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V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
Around 1914, Peter and Laurie Kerr commissioned Portland architect Ellis F. Lawrence, who was the first dean of the University of Oregon’s architecture department, to design a new home based on a Scottish country parson’s manse.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
Peacock, talented, attractive, amatory, and a good friend to the bohemian Shelley circle, married, rather surprisingly, a Welsh parson’s daughter, Jane Gryffydh, who was ill at ease in London and developed life-long mental illness after the death of one of her children.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
Charles Darwin was a companion to Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle with time to see the world before planning to return and become a parson.
—Catherine Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
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V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
Around 1914, Peter and Laurie Kerr commissioned Portland architect Ellis F. Lawrence, who was the first dean of the University of Oregon’s architecture department, to design a new home based on a Scottish country parson’s manse.
—Jeastman, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
Peacock, talented, attractive, amatory, and a good friend to the bohemian Shelley circle, married, rather surprisingly, a Welsh parson’s daughter, Jane Gryffydh, who was ill at ease in London and developed life-long mental illness after the death of one of her children.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
Charles Darwin was a companion to Captain FitzRoy of the Beagle with time to see the world before planning to return and become a parson.
—Catherine Hoffman, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parson
Noun
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The faithful from Francis’ homeland, meanwhile, gathered in the Argentine church of Rome for a special Mass presided over by Cardinal Baldassarre Reina, the pope’s vicar for Rome.—
Silvia Stellacci,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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Currently the parochial vicar at St. Lucy Parish in Campbell, Rev. Pedigo formerly served as pastor at St. Julie Billiart and Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Jose.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Kirchner had, a year earlier, backed sanctions for clergymen who publicly opposed the government’s human rights policies, including his decision to annul laws pardoning dictatorship-era atrocities.—
Federico Perelmuter,
The Dial,
13 Mar. 2025
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The emails, sent from Saints accounts, don’t specify which clergymen were removed from the list or why.—
Brett Martel,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Its pastor rejoiced Have the flu or know someone with it?—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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The renowned pastor joined the TODAY show on March 26 to discuss the health scare.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Mayall was also a rector for Holy Name Cathedral beginning in January 2002.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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There will be an Anglican funeral service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Upperville, Va at 11:00 am on December 21, 2024, officiated by her pastor, The Rev. Jonathan Kell, rector of Church of Our Saviour, Oatlands.—
Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
14 Dec. 2024
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Martini was a key figure in a group of churchmen who met annually in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to ponder how best to blunt John Paul and Ratzinger’s reactionary thrust.—
Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The group has since evolved to the comité de padres and grown to roughly 30 mothers.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Apr. 2024
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This interest followed him throughout his life, expanding during his education at King’s College London and Cambridge and into his work as a curate in Hampshire.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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Kingsley was born in 1819, the son of a curate who subjected him to a rigorous and frequently brutal education.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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Jade, a 3-year-old shepherd, was originally adopted from an animal shelter in Olathe, Kansas, in December 2024.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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Saint Patrick was actually British, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved as a teenager to work as a shepherd.—
Maureen Murphy,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Parson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parson. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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