man of the cloth

noun phrase

formal + old-fashioned
: a man who is a priest or minister

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Invisible among the bustle of his FBI bureau, Tom once led a quiet life as a man of the cloth. EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Greg Lockwood turned out to be no ordinary man of the cloth. Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 The creative man of the cloth documented his time in a handwritten journal, which the current owner plans to pass down to the next owner. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025 As a man of the cloth, Jakes found the entire incident to be a spiritual experience. Rachel McRady, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025 And with that, Elijah Gemstone becomes a true man of the cloth, even if that cloth will, in future generations, be silky and bejeweled and catch the stage lights at a megachurch. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025 The Good Doctor was indeed a man of the cloth, having received his doctorate from the Missionaries of the New Truth, a church operating out of Chicago. Rory Feehan, SPIN, 9 Nov. 2023 Nora Mathison: Luckily, Sarah had a connection to a man, a man of the cloth. Nora Mathison, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023 For a man of the cloth, his answers to my questions were non-ideological. Mohsen Milani, Foreign Affairs, 25 June 2013

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“Man of the cloth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man%20of%20the%20cloth. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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