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Recent Examples of ecclesiastical In the days since Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, amid the mourning, marveling at the ecclesiastical opulence, and the reveling in what felt like the Catholic Super Bowl, the divine mystique of the whole affair has drawn the world in. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 12 May 2025 Fox taught that the Inner Light emancipates a person from adherence to any creed, ecclesiastical authority or ritual forms. Arkansas Online, 11 May 2025 However, John Prevost offered some insight into how his younger likes to take a break from weighty ecclesiastical issues when the two get a chance to talk. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 May 2025 Generally, though, there’s not a lot of poetry in the fight scenes, despite Michôd mixing in ecclesiastical choral music with Antony Partos’ score. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for ecclesiastical
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Adjective
  • Forbidden passion fueled the plot of The Thorn Birds in which the late Richard Chamberlain, played the priest Ralph de Bricassart, a heartthrob in ecclesiastic wear.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2025
  • America has no aristocracy or ecclesiastic master class.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
Adjective
  • How the courts and legislatures balance the rights of the majority and minority in these disputes over the place of the Ten Commandments in public life may go a long way toward shaping the future of religious freedom in American public education.
    Lydia Artz, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Families in Florida can also seek temporary or permanent exemptions for medical or religious reasons.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • All this unfolds while the days count down, flagged by bold onscreen graphics, to the Day Zero when Teresa will get her papal dispensation and leave the convent to start her new order.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • By inviting others into his private quarters, Leo is adopting an approach that merges papal tradition with communal religious life.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Ecclesiastical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ecclesiastical. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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