clergywoman
Americannoun
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a female member of the clergy.
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a woman who is an ordained Christian minister.
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The House of Deputies, which with the House of Bishops oversees the church, also elected an Indigenous clergywoman, the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, as its vice president.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022
Dorothy McKinney Wright, 89, a Presbyterian clergywoman who had served from 1978 to 1981 as director of community food and nutrition for the United Planning Organization in Washington, died Oct.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2020
The Rev. Margaret True, 80, a special-education coordinator for Fairfax County Public Schools and a retired Presbyterian clergywoman, died June 16 at a hospital in St. Louis.
From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2018
Mpho Tutu met Marceline van Furth in 2011, the year the clergywoman moved back to South Africa from the US.
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2016
"I does not, so far, my daughter; though I think the young clergywoman speaks very convincingly about it."
From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
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