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单词 clergyman
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Definition of clergyman in English:

clergyman

nounPlural clergymen ˈkləːdʒɪmənˈklərdʒimən
  • A male priest, minister, or religious leader, especially a Christian one.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As the perpetual curate, he was in charge of a large if slightly unruly parish; evidence suggests that he was an active and conscientious clergyman.
    • He was the son of a clergyman of great learning and virtue.
    • If talking to a friend or relative doesn't help, or is not an option, a clergyman may be helpful.
    • "I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain" - from British writer Samuel Johnson.
    • Along with several couples, there were a group of five unattached girls and this unattached clergyman.
    • This was reflected in such pictures as Pastor Hall (1940), a film based on a true story of a clergyman who speaks out against the nation's rulers.
    • This autobiographical tale set in 1907 follows young Alexander and his sister Fanny as they struggle with their father's death and mother's hasty remarriage to an authoritarian clergyman.
    • His obsession with evangelical Christianity made him want to become a clergyman like his father, so he tried to enroll in a theology school.
    • Walker, an elderly Church of Ireland clergyman, was the heart and soul of Londonderry's resistance to James II after the Glorious Revolution.
    • In the wake of the demise of the Roman Empire, European peasants, nobles and clergyman had to literally remake their lives.
    • His father became a clergyman in middle age and moved to a rectory in Ballymoney.
    • The Pledge, itself, came along slightly more than a century ago, the work of a socialist editor and clergyman.
    • I search my memory bank and remember that some Lutheran clergyman were taken to camps during the war.
    • A Baptist clergyman from Boston said it was a man's Christian duty to make money because of the good you can do with the money earned.
    • They ended up at the Lodging House, where he befriended theological students and dreamed of becoming a clergyman himself.
    • The feature tries to touch on some of the more controversial points of the Gospels that have been fiercely debated by academics and clergymen over the years.
    • The clergyman participates in marriages chiefly as a witness.
    • A famous author and clergyman once said: ‘Bigotry warps the soul by shutting out the truth.’
    • The reverand has been for a quarter of a century a clergyman in Hampshire.
    • Its protagonist, an earnest but questioning clergyman, resigns his orders for a life of social service in the East End, to the distress of his devout wife Catherine.
    • If it's a clergy person, that's fine, but no clergyman has to perform it if it's against their religion, or it can be a justice of the peace.
    • They were staffed by clergymen ordained in the Church of England.
    • The heroes that emerge are not scientists and bomber pilots but rather the doctors and clergymen who tend the wounded and injured, and the victims who somehow manage to live on.
    • Having divorced his mentally unstable wife, he finds that his interest in the life of the clergyman has waned.
    • Ariah begins as a stock character - the repressed, pale, clergyman's daughter, stiff-backed with pebbly green eyes and a talent for the piano.
    • Jane is sent to Lowood Institution, a charitable, cheap and strictly kept school for clergyman's daughters.
    • There was once a time in America when all its writers seemed to be clergymen.
    • My rabbi in Brooklyn, who is a national Jewish leader, probably did not know a single Christian clergyman on a first-name basis.
    • Two of the survivors were Christian clergymen, who underscore through their actions that Christian love and sacrifice are very important for many.
    • The 40-year-old clergyman is fired up with enthusiasm for his new post.
    • The widespread practice by which lay owners of advowsons nominally appointed a clergyman to several benefices at the same time, while the income from the benefices remained almost totally in their own hands, became illegal.
    • Stratford clergymen solemnized three marriages in February.
    • A consistory court has the power to hear against any Anglican clergyman or woman a charge of ‘conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders’.
    • Unsmiling portraits of Victorian clergymen have been found in Ripon Cathedral appeared to offer little excitement.
    • Written in 1855, it tells the story of a middle class clergyman's daughter who leaves Hampshire to start a new life in the northern industrial town of Milton.
    • Well, a chaplain, by anybody's dictionary, is a person - clergyman or layman - who conducts a service in a chapel.
    • It would be the responsibility of the clergyman him to the police.
    • Nor did Morse's father, a prominent Massachusetts clergyman, have an artistic career in mind for his oldest son.
    • One New Orleans clergyman, whose home was flooded, refused to attend.
    • Hhis father was probably an Italian nobleman, although he liked to hint he was the offspring of a high-ranking clergyman.
    • On occasion, Evensong was conducted by a thrice-retired diminutive clergyman from the Ministry of Healing.
    • But despite the fact that he was an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, parish churches began to close their doors against him.
    • Despite the fact that his father was a landowner, town councillor, and clergyman we hear of no attempt to rescue or ransom the captive.
    • The son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, he emigrated in 1875 as a graduate in law from Trinity College, Dublin.
    • A new clergyman appointed to a York parish is well-equipped to heal the sick without the power of prayer.
    Synonyms
    priest, churchman, churchwoman, man/woman of the cloth, man/woman of God, cleric, minister, preacher, chaplain, father
    ecclesiastic, divine, theologian
    Christianity bishop, pastor, vicar, rector, parson, (assistant) curate, deacon, deaconess
    Judaism rabbi
    Islam imam
    Scottish kirkman
    French abbé, curé
    North American dominie
    informal reverend, padre, Holy Joe, sky pilot
    Australian informal josser
    informal, derogatory Bible-basher, God-botherer

Rhymes

clergymen
 
 

Definition of clergyman in US English:

clergyman

nounˈklərdʒimənˈklərjēmən
  • A male priest, minister, or religious leader, especially a Christian one.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were staffed by clergymen ordained in the Church of England.
    • A consistory court has the power to hear against any Anglican clergyman or woman a charge of ‘conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders’.
    • Written in 1855, it tells the story of a middle class clergyman's daughter who leaves Hampshire to start a new life in the northern industrial town of Milton.
    • Its protagonist, an earnest but questioning clergyman, resigns his orders for a life of social service in the East End, to the distress of his devout wife Catherine.
    • This was reflected in such pictures as Pastor Hall (1940), a film based on a true story of a clergyman who speaks out against the nation's rulers.
    • Despite the fact that his father was a landowner, town councillor, and clergyman we hear of no attempt to rescue or ransom the captive.
    • He was the son of a clergyman of great learning and virtue.
    • There was once a time in America when all its writers seemed to be clergymen.
    • The feature tries to touch on some of the more controversial points of the Gospels that have been fiercely debated by academics and clergymen over the years.
    • His father became a clergyman in middle age and moved to a rectory in Ballymoney.
    • Two of the survivors were Christian clergymen, who underscore through their actions that Christian love and sacrifice are very important for many.
    • Hhis father was probably an Italian nobleman, although he liked to hint he was the offspring of a high-ranking clergyman.
    • This autobiographical tale set in 1907 follows young Alexander and his sister Fanny as they struggle with their father's death and mother's hasty remarriage to an authoritarian clergyman.
    • If it's a clergy person, that's fine, but no clergyman has to perform it if it's against their religion, or it can be a justice of the peace.
    • Well, a chaplain, by anybody's dictionary, is a person - clergyman or layman - who conducts a service in a chapel.
    • Having divorced his mentally unstable wife, he finds that his interest in the life of the clergyman has waned.
    • On occasion, Evensong was conducted by a thrice-retired diminutive clergyman from the Ministry of Healing.
    • Unsmiling portraits of Victorian clergymen have been found in Ripon Cathedral appeared to offer little excitement.
    • Stratford clergymen solemnized three marriages in February.
    • My rabbi in Brooklyn, who is a national Jewish leader, probably did not know a single Christian clergyman on a first-name basis.
    • One New Orleans clergyman, whose home was flooded, refused to attend.
    • Along with several couples, there were a group of five unattached girls and this unattached clergyman.
    • A famous author and clergyman once said: ‘Bigotry warps the soul by shutting out the truth.’
    • The son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, he emigrated in 1875 as a graduate in law from Trinity College, Dublin.
    • As the perpetual curate, he was in charge of a large if slightly unruly parish; evidence suggests that he was an active and conscientious clergyman.
    • The widespread practice by which lay owners of advowsons nominally appointed a clergyman to several benefices at the same time, while the income from the benefices remained almost totally in their own hands, became illegal.
    • "I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain" - from British writer Samuel Johnson.
    • Jane is sent to Lowood Institution, a charitable, cheap and strictly kept school for clergyman's daughters.
    • They ended up at the Lodging House, where he befriended theological students and dreamed of becoming a clergyman himself.
    • The Pledge, itself, came along slightly more than a century ago, the work of a socialist editor and clergyman.
    • The reverand has been for a quarter of a century a clergyman in Hampshire.
    • But despite the fact that he was an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, parish churches began to close their doors against him.
    • I search my memory bank and remember that some Lutheran clergyman were taken to camps during the war.
    • In the wake of the demise of the Roman Empire, European peasants, nobles and clergyman had to literally remake their lives.
    • The heroes that emerge are not scientists and bomber pilots but rather the doctors and clergymen who tend the wounded and injured, and the victims who somehow manage to live on.
    • Ariah begins as a stock character - the repressed, pale, clergyman's daughter, stiff-backed with pebbly green eyes and a talent for the piano.
    • Walker, an elderly Church of Ireland clergyman, was the heart and soul of Londonderry's resistance to James II after the Glorious Revolution.
    • If talking to a friend or relative doesn't help, or is not an option, a clergyman may be helpful.
    • It would be the responsibility of the clergyman him to the police.
    • A Baptist clergyman from Boston said it was a man's Christian duty to make money because of the good you can do with the money earned.
    • The clergyman participates in marriages chiefly as a witness.
    • The 40-year-old clergyman is fired up with enthusiasm for his new post.
    • A new clergyman appointed to a York parish is well-equipped to heal the sick without the power of prayer.
    • Nor did Morse's father, a prominent Massachusetts clergyman, have an artistic career in mind for his oldest son.
    • His obsession with evangelical Christianity made him want to become a clergyman like his father, so he tried to enroll in a theology school.
    Synonyms
    priest, churchman, man of the cloth, man of god, cleric, minister, preacher, chaplain, father
 
 
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