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Tutivillus, who totted up all the mistakes clergymen made when singing hymns or reciting psalms.
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JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
Hopkins' performance is wide-ranging, swinging the pendulum from an eccentric clergyman to a man overcome by darkness.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Lots of Guinness family members lived in England and had titles in British aristocracy, and some even became Protestant clergymen.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
Hopkins' performance is wide-ranging, swinging the pendulum from an eccentric clergyman to a man overcome by darkness.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.
—Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
Lots of Guinness family members lived in England and had titles in British aristocracy, and some even became Protestant clergymen.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clergyman. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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clergyman
noun
cler·gy·man
ˈklər-ji-mən 
: a member of the clergy
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