as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
the marriage will be performed by our usual preacher
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The Legislature passed the measure idly as a meaningless gift to its drafter, John W. Butler, a lay preacher who hadn’t passed any other bill.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
Moore, the grandson of a preacher who helped raise him, had taken notes in his personal Bible throughout both sermons and invoked the Book of Joshua.
—Erin Cox, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
He’s left a distinctive stamp on the orchestra’s sound in the years since, whether declaiming the beginning of Mahler 5 with a preacher’s conviction or, as in a recent Ravinia concert, tossing off a ragtime solo with waggish virtuosity.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
In 1996, Bolin's brother, Ronnie Bolin, a preacher, mysteriously disappeared.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 July 2024
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
Moore, the grandson of a preacher who helped raise him, had taken notes in his personal Bible throughout both sermons and invoked the Book of Joshua.
—Erin Cox, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
He’s left a distinctive stamp on the orchestra’s sound in the years since, whether declaiming the beginning of Mahler 5 with a preacher’s conviction or, as in a recent Ravinia concert, tossing off a ragtime solo with waggish virtuosity.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
In 1996, Bolin's brother, Ronnie Bolin, a preacher, mysteriously disappeared.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 July 2024
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“Preacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preacher. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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