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
The old palsied abbé came and chanted prayers for the dying, and some one played a “Dies Iræ” on the little organ.
From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer
I was born in the little town of Tourteron where Bertrand Fauchet was born—and where Nanette came to live with her brother Paul and their uncle, the good abbé.
From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer
The clergy nominated bishops and abbés attached to privilege, and curés favourable to the popular cause, which was their own; lastly, the third estate selected men enlightened, firm, and unanimous in their wishes.
From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet
They were imitated in their vices by a rabble of priests out of place, to whom the title of abbot was given in politeness, the little abbés of French biography and fiction.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
The young abbés and priests were very good fellows, earnest believers, but so simple that conversations with them were only interesting because of their ignorance and lack of understanding.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
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 abbés and men of learning are of easy access enough, but few English that travel have knowledge enough to take any great pleasure in that company.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
