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clergyman

[klur-jee-muhn] / ˈklɜr dʒi mən /


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The talented daughters of a 19th-century Yorkshire clergyman are at the heart of Anjet Daanje’s sprawling epic, translated from Dutch by David McKay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

One character we haven’t cracked as successfully as our U.K. cousins, however, is the clergyman detective — odd, given our culture’s puritanical bent.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

The sermon was given by Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, a senior Catholic clergyman, who spoke of the importance of rejecting intolerance and and the "massive persecution of Christians in so many places".

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

The clergyman sat opposite him, with the Duke on one side and the Duchess on the other.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

The researchers say the register lays bare the breadth of which individuals contributed financially to the slave trade - from monarchs and politicians, to plumbers and clergymen.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The letter, addressed to white clergymen critical of King’s anti-segregation protests, defended nonviolent civil disobedience as a tactic in the fight for racial justice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

With other prominent Black clergymen, he helped to win the release of Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in South Africa.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2024

Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024

These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro


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