sexton

as in steward
a person who takes care of church buildings and property and often rings the church's bell during services a sexton who kept the church immaculate for over forty-five years

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Recent Examples of sexton At several synagogues, services were interrupted as the sextons stood up and called out the names of young men who were being summoned to duty; other worshipers, on hearing the news, quickly folded their prayer shawls and departed; some returned later, in uniform, to bid their families goodbye. Time, 11 Oct. 2023 The pair grew up in Seminary, a historically Black community near the Virginia Theological Seminary, where their grandfather worked as a sexton. Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2023 The board has also welcomed a full-time sexton at Spring Grove Cemetery. Sam Boyer, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022 Junior Roop, the sexton of a cemetery near the spill site, said people could smell the oil in town. CBS News, 9 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for sexton
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steward
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  • For the first time, the ceremonial movement Solstice Unites will open the Global Citizen Festival and present a historic Global Powwow to honor the land and the ancestral stewards of the grounds.
    Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Leaders who grasp this framework will see themselves not just as managers of tasks but as architects of signals, stewards of patterns, cultivators of pathways, and guardians of heuristics.
    Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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

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