parson

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Roy is mirrored in turn by the later appearance of another parson, Preston Teagardin, played by Robert Pattinson with the same lip-smacking comic flamboyance he recently brought to “The King.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2020

The sympathetic parson will reassure him, we think, but that’s not what happens.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018

The mission failed, and Thomas was immortalized as “the parson of the islands.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2017

If this strikes you as an unusual view for a parson, you are not alone.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2017

“He will look,” she said, “like a city parson at the racetrack. Someone who puts his money on horses named after the Patriarchs.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson