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单词 abbé
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Definition of abbé in English:

abbé

noun ˈabeɪabeaˈbā
  • (in France) an abbot or other cleric.

    the abbé was his confessor
    as title Abbé Pierre
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In France their leader was the abbé Jules Lemire, who was elected to parliament from a Flemish constituency in 1893.
    • He attended the Jesuit College in Amiens, studying under the abbé Jacques Delille who was a poet and classicist.
    • It is possible to detect the influence of Jansenism through the presence of two leading draftsmen of the Civil Constitution, abbés Grégoire and Camus.
    • In his revolutionary pamphlet of 1788, the abbé Sieyès lamented the great respect granted this parasitic existence.
    • Chapter two follows with an analysis of the economic resources of ‘Dalmatia’ through the work of the abbé Alberto Fortis.
    • Jean Picard, who also was an abbé, held Mouton in high esteem and always visited him when in Lyons.
    • We also would like to thank l' abbé René Chartier, Soeur Rioux and Soeur Forest for all their support and prayers.
    • The late abbé Galiani was absolutely right to compare our Council of Finance to Christmas Eve, when everyone eats too much and finishes up with violent indigestion.
    • The sly abbé from Périgord takes Candide to the theatre.
    • The French abbé de Saint Pierre went even further, noting that the power of states simply fluctuated too much for such an idea to be feasible.
    • Educated by a Jansenist-leaning abbé, Tocqueville did not lose his faith lightly.

Origin

Mid 16th century: French, from ecclesiastical Latin abbas, abbat- (see abbot).

 
 

Definition of abbé in US English:

abbé

nounaˈbā
  • (in France) an abbot or other cleric.

    the abbé was his confessor
    as title Abbé Pierre
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sly abbé from Périgord takes Candide to the theatre.
    • Educated by a Jansenist-leaning abbé, Tocqueville did not lose his faith lightly.
    • Chapter two follows with an analysis of the economic resources of ‘Dalmatia’ through the work of the abbé Alberto Fortis.
    • He attended the Jesuit College in Amiens, studying under the abbé Jacques Delille who was a poet and classicist.
    • It is possible to detect the influence of Jansenism through the presence of two leading draftsmen of the Civil Constitution, abbés Grégoire and Camus.
    • In his revolutionary pamphlet of 1788, the abbé Sieyès lamented the great respect granted this parasitic existence.
    • The French abbé de Saint Pierre went even further, noting that the power of states simply fluctuated too much for such an idea to be feasible.
    • In France their leader was the abbé Jules Lemire, who was elected to parliament from a Flemish constituency in 1893.
    • Jean Picard, who also was an abbé, held Mouton in high esteem and always visited him when in Lyons.
    • The late abbé Galiani was absolutely right to compare our Council of Finance to Christmas Eve, when everyone eats too much and finishes up with violent indigestion.
    • We also would like to thank l' abbé René Chartier, Soeur Rioux and Soeur Forest for all their support and prayers.

Origin

Mid 16th century: French, from ecclesiastical Latin abbas, abbat- (see abbot).

 
 
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