ecclesiastics
Example Sentences
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“So many disloyal actions on the part of ecclesiastics are born of the lack of a sense of having been shown compassion, and by the habit of averting one’s gaze, the habit of indifference.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2019
But everybody comes across as human here: the conniving ecclesiastics who propel Henry into war, the fatuous French Dauphin, the speechifying Welsh Captain Fluellen and Henry's disreputable old chums from his wild youth.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2012
The gold canopy, the procession of ecclesiastics, the charming boys’ choir.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2010
French ecclesiastics, to whom democracy meant Jacobinism and anticlericalism, were especially outraged.
From Time Magazine Archive
How contemptible, indeed, the Inquisition had become, even in the eyes of ecclesiastics, is brought instructively before us in a petty quarrel between the Inquisitor Raymond Gozin and his Dominican brethren.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
