Advertisement
Advertisement
friar
noun as in abbot
noun as in monk
noun as in priest
Example Sentences
"His family were in finance and they were working really temporarily in London," says Father Paul Addison, a friar at the church.
It was closely associated with the Spanish conquest, Spanish friars acting as de facto colonial administrators and the church becoming a big landowner.
A few accounts say friars who presented Guatemalan Mayans to Philip II of Spain in 1544 also gifted him cacao beans.
A theologian who later became a Dominican friar, he revolutionised Church teachings with his 1971 book Theology of Liberation.
A friar who knew of his struggle encouraged him to start dating a woman, but it didn’t feel natural.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse