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clergyman

[ US /ˈkɫɝdʒiˌmæn, ˈkɫɝdʒimən/ ]
[ UK /klˈɜːd‍ʒɪmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

How To Use clergyman In A Sentence

  • The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
  • In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
  • As to the conversation carried on between the clergyman and the earthbound spirit, the same authoress has described a similar one when recording the adventures of Lord and Lady Wynford in Glamis Castle (Ghosts I Have Seen, p. 175). The Land of Mist
  • Hal is indeed shallow, smug, chubby, in love with himself and in thrall to his late clergyman father's last piece of advice that he should chase only the hottest totty.
  • a beneficed clergyman
  • What other clergyman played any comparable role in bringing down communism, a godless system?
  • Others showed him as a young clergyman and as a season ticket holder at local side San Lorenzo. The Sun
  • That a man who certainly did (as F.H. Groome says) look like a “colossal clergyman” should have joined the gipsies, that he should have wandered over England and Europe, content often to have the grass for his bed and the sky for his hostry-roof, has astonished very much (and I believe scandalized very much) this age. Old Familiar Faces
  • The son of a clergyman, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and was subsequently articled to the organist there.
  • I am a non-stipendiary clergyman; a chaplain working with people with disabilities.
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