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UK
/pˈɑːsənɪdʒ/
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[ US /ˈpɑɹsənɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑɹsənɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector
How To Use parsonage In A Sentence
- An unused parsonage at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Ottumwa, Iowa, has been put to good use.
- The distinctive, colourless animal with white prickles, red eyes and pink feet is being treated with antibiotics at the Withington Hedgehog Hospital on Parsonage Road.
- To them, the great rambling barn back of the parsonage was a most delightful place. Prudence of the Parsonage
- The school teacher lived in the parsonage, too.
- They temporarily moved to a vacant parsonage in nearby Garnavillo.
- Under a provision of the tax code known as the parsonage allowance, first passed in 1921, an ordained clergy member may live tax-free in a home owned by his or her religious organization or receive a tax-free annual payment to buy or rent a home if the congregation approves. Tax Break for Clergy Questioned
- Or, I could work it in between washing laundry and making sure the parsonage is spotless in case of drop-in company.
- And I think that this case ought to be considered in the same manner as if the archdeaconry and the parsonage had been a hundred miles distant from each other.
- And he had the bishop's apron framed, and hung it in the parsonage hail, from a red-deer's antlers, with the name and date below.
- I am trying to separate living and working and I found this room high up in a parsonage, in an administrative building attached to a church.