ecclesiast
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He is no hypocrite, no weary "king ecclesiast," shaking his head over the orgies of sap and song in which he can no longer share.
From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne
Though thrice a thousand years are passed Since David's son, the sad and splendid, The weary king ecclesiast Upon his awful tablets penned it.
From Thackeray by Anthony Trollope
I am so much of a natural church-woman, I might say an ecclesiast, that I at once began to dream of a church of true womanhood.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
Henry becoming an ecclesiast was created abbot of Glastonbury and bishop of Winchester.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
He was somewhat prominent as an ecclesiast, and he was a Sunday School worker in his ward.
From Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins
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