clergyman
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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
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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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Vocabulary lists containing clergyman
"The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen
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Adventures of Don Quixote
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Vocabulary from Readings 5, Unit 4
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