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His intelligence sources ranged from an anonymous stable boy to the minister Samuel Mather, son of the Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather and a brother-in-law of Massachusetts’ royal governor, Thomas Hutchinson.
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Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
And there’s one collared clergyman hoisted onto someone’s shoulders.
—Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
Descended from a long line of clergymen, he was apprenticed to a bookseller at fifteen, which seems to have decided his professional fate.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, Emily lived almost all of her life in Haworth, a remote village in the southern Pennines, hundreds of miles from literary London.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
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Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
And there’s one collared clergyman hoisted onto someone’s shoulders.
—Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
Descended from a long line of clergymen, he was apprenticed to a bookseller at fifteen, which seems to have decided his professional fate.
—Merve Emre, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, Emily lived almost all of her life in Haworth, a remote village in the southern Pennines, hundreds of miles from literary London.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
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“Clergyman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clergyman. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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clergyman
noun
cler·gy·man
ˈklər-ji-mən 
: a member of the clergy
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