rectory

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Recent Examples of rectory Jacobs was ordered out of the rectory just a few days after being put on leave, and has been staying at a West Hartford home provided by a parishioner. Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2025 Dedicated in 1906, the church was razed in 1995, along with its rectory, convent and grade school. Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025 Over the years the parish has grown with the addition of a rectory, a parish hall and most recently its two-story parish center where staff offices, classrooms and meeting rooms are located. Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025 Those churches often had schools, convents, gymnasiums and rectories. Lainey Seyler, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for rectory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectory
Noun
  • Neighbors fear ‘screaming, shouting, and splashing’ The Sun first reported that Horner and Halliwell had sent off planning permission last year to build a 40ft x 16ft swimming pool at their vicarage house residence, which Horner bought for £2 million ($2.5 million) in 2006.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
    Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • When Johnson retired, Seay-Hubbard purchased the home and converted it into a parsonage of the church until clergy no longer wanted to reside there.
    Jennifer Lindahl, The Tennessean, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The church building and parsonage, both owned by the National Park Service, are part of the national historical park along with Tubman’s former brick home, a visitor center, an administrative building, and the reconstructed Home for the Aged and Indigent Negroes, which are privately owned.
    Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2024
Noun
  • Others huddled in conversation in the Great Hall and in what was once the library of Andrew Carnegie’s uptown manse.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • After a four-year absence for renovations, during which the collection was transported to the brutalist Breuer building on Madison Avenue, the Frick is happily back in its bigger, better Fifth Avenue manse.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • State of residence could not be determined for 2,330 individuals.
    Mercedes Vigon, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Click here for more photos of the Los Feliz residence.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pico Iyer makes time for retreats at a Benedictine hermitage in California.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
  • When Iyer’s wife accompanies him on a visit to the hermitage, the monks greet her warmly.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The case involved the denial of a rezoning request to build multifamily dwellings in the upscale Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • People are prohibited from burning open fires within 100 feet of an occupied dwelling.
    Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • How to prepare before strong winds approach Trim tree branches away from your house and power lines.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Plus, there’s a two-level guest house with its own kitchen and living area.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The death toll from Tuesday (April 8) roof collapse at the Jet Set club in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic has climbed to more than 113 people.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The cause of the roof collapse wasn't immediately clear as authorities investigated.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Rectory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectory. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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