abbé
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Morse got most of this story from a book written by a Scottish academic named John Robison, who in turn took many of his ideas from the abbé de Barruel, a French priest.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2022
He even took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865, becoming an abbé but appropriately stopping short of the vow of chastity.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2011
This smoothness has perhaps a slight tinge of the priestly—for, as Renan first studied for the priesthood, so Dupont-Sommer was once an abbé.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 1955
If it had fallen on Cartouche, or the abbé Desfontaines, people would not have failed to say: "Behold how God punishes thieves and—."
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
She asked if they had not met a fat abbé, an enormous bailiff, and a young booby, galloping as fast as they could to Paris.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
This was not difficult in days when secular abbés were common; nothing would induce him to change his resolution of being a soldier.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Grace Wharton
We cannot conclude this article better than by honorably mentioning two classes of men whom we have seen in all their glory, and whom the Revolution has eclipsed--the chevaliers and the abbés.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
At their feet, on pillows resting, Or reclining on the greensward, May be seen abbés and gallants.
From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Edwin Björkman
In this baladin talent of his there was something of the freedom and sparkle of the Italian abbés; and yet the Abbé de Voisenon enjoyed during his life-time a high degree of celebrity.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
The remarkable contrast between the high wages of the Athenian sophists and the low wages of modern abbés, Adam Smith accounts for principally by the many scholarships of modern times.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
