deaconry
Example Sentences
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He enters its lower ranks, the deaconry, for example, at puberty.
From Time Magazine Archive
But sober second thought, that ought always and specially to attach itself to the deaconry, was apparently at a premium in our town.
From Children of the Tenements by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
