as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
a small village where the doctor and the dominie were the two pillars of society
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dominie
Noun
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Nevertheless, the walking dead break in anyway and the boy runs for his life, hiding out in a church where his father is the priest.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
18 June 2025 -
But, in many ways, Chryseis—in spite of the apparent privileging of her name and her identity as a priest’s daughter that makes its way into the later stories about her—is the more silent, the more difficult to bring back to life, of the two.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 June 2025
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Fight Night became a way to explore the soul of that shift — through hustlers and preachers, cops and kingpins, veterans and dreamers.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
18 June 2025
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These were often portraits of people at work—jockeys, preachers, movie stars—that showcase the indiscriminate pleasure Crews took in shoptalk.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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The Silver family also includes Jonah’s mother, district attorney Mae Silver (Gloria Reuben); his grandfather, reverend Edwin Peters (Ernie Hudson); his sister, detective Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green); and his stepsister, Sarah (Maggie Lawson).—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
11 June 2025
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His deep, resonant bass voice reaches its full potential in the reverend’s moving and emotional final oration.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2025
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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
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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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Fresh capability targets were agreed by defense ministers at the start of June.—
Ellie Cook —reporting from The Hague,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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Moyers was White House press secretary in the administration of President Johnson from 1965-67, and as such was allegedly involved in the bullying of journalists over their coverage of Vietnam, according to Morley Safer, before breaking with Johnson; Moyers was also an ordained Baptist minister.—
Carmel Dagan,
Variety,
26 June 2025
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As a Lutheran deacon, Ross Murray, who’s the vice president of education and training at the GLAAD Media Institute, spends a lot of time working with LGBTQ+ teenagers.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
18 June 2025
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On April 30, the Toms River Township Council placed an ordinance on its agenda to condemn the church's 10-acre site, which includes the parish house, auditorium, school, sanctuary and deacon’s residence, under its eminent domain power.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
26 May 2025
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“Dominie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dominie. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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