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Definition of shaveling in English: shavelingnoun ˈʃeɪvlɪŋˈʃeɪvlɪŋ derogatory, archaic A clergyman or priest with a tonsured head. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Our chaplain attempted to teach me to write,’ he said, ‘but all my letters were formed like spear-heads and sword blades, and so the old shaveling gave up the task.’
- What you shavelings call ‘incomprehensible sayings’ is incomprehensible only to you, not to the Buddhas and ancestors.
- Never did we more greatly marvel at the mercy of God, which holds back his thunderbolts from destroying those wretched shavelings who deceive the people.
- About him stood three priests, true shavelings, clean shorn and polled, who were muttering strange words to the devils out of a conjuring book.
- His hair is cut away; the locks that covered him once are taken from him, and there he stands a shaveling, weak as other men.
Definition of shaveling in US English: shavelingnounˈʃeɪvlɪŋˈSHāvliNG derogatory, archaic A clergyman or priest with a tonsured head. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Our chaplain attempted to teach me to write,’ he said, ‘but all my letters were formed like spear-heads and sword blades, and so the old shaveling gave up the task.’
- Never did we more greatly marvel at the mercy of God, which holds back his thunderbolts from destroying those wretched shavelings who deceive the people.
- About him stood three priests, true shavelings, clean shorn and polled, who were muttering strange words to the devils out of a conjuring book.
- His hair is cut away; the locks that covered him once are taken from him, and there he stands a shaveling, weak as other men.
- What you shavelings call ‘incomprehensible sayings’ is incomprehensible only to you, not to the Buddhas and ancestors.
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