clergyman
noun, plural cler·gy·men.
Origin of clergyman
Related Words for clergyman
evangelist, cleric, pontiff, rabbi, pastor, preacher, priest, chaplain, bishop, missionary, shepherd, vicar, curate, primate, clerk, father, abbey, cardinal, parson, rectorExamples from the Web for clergyman
Contemporary Examples of clergyman
Yet again, the clergyman of the moment provided another proof for the brutal fanaticism inherent in religious nationalism.
Tanner, son of a clergyman and a foe of drinking and smoking, was generally devout and upright.
Kevin McAuliffe, a 58-year-old Nevada clergyman, faces sentencing next week for stealing $650,000 from his diocese.
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January 4, 2012
Historical Examples of clergyman
This feeling was intensified by the belief that Swift, as a clergyman, was insincere.
De Libris: Prose and VerseAustin Dobson
The clergyman was coming along the path with Schwitter at his heels.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
Her name was Dorothea Taust; her father, like most of his ancestors, was a clergyman.
HandelEdward J. Dent
This gentleman was a clergyman, who had no regular parish, but who preached in a chapel of his own.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
The clergyman looked round; one of the children was trembling.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton