clergyman

noun

cler·gy·man ˈklər-jē-mən

plural clergymen

Synonyms of clergyman next

: a member of the clergy

Examples of clergyman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The tragedy inspired a poem by twelve-year-old Benjamin Franklin and a funeral oration by the scourging Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather. —

Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023 The volume was a book of devotional poems by English poet and clergyman George Herbert, who had died in March 1633 at age 39, likely of tuberculosis. —

V.m. Braganza, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023 In 1857 three stories about Anglican clergymen were published anonymously in Blackwood’s Magazine. —

Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023 Her father was an Anglican clergyman; her mother was a homemaker and daughter of Plymouth Brethren missionaries in China who were killed during the xenophobic Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century. —

Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023 At last, the clergyman hit upon what seemed an excellent idea for subduing the Andaman Home’s rambunctious inmates. —

Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023 Several local human rights activists, including lawyers and a clergyman viewed as critical of the government, were denied accreditation to observe the vote. —

Farai Mutsaka, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023 Several local human rights activists, including lawyers and a clergyman viewed as critical of the government, also were denied accreditation to observe the vote. —

Farai Mutsaka, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023 Negroes and Whites, housewives and Hollywood stars, senators and a few beatniks, clergymen and probably a few Communists. —

Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2023 See More

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