clergywoman
Americannoun
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clergywomen
plural
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a female member of the clergy.
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a woman who is an ordained Christian minister.
noun
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Origin of clergywoman
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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
By falling in love with a popish clergywoman; said Trim.
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Rev. Teri Peterson, a minister at St. John ’s Church in Gourock, Scotland, was on an eight-day Carnival Magic cruise with a group of clergywomen and other women in ministry when the incident occurred.
From Fox News ● Feb. 13, 2019
Her performance immediately joins the all-time great screen depictions of domineering clergywomen — right up there with the late Geraldine McEwan in “The Magdalene Sisters” and Agata Kulesza in last year’s Sundance-premiered “The Innocents.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2017
If there had been, there would have been a term for laywomen and for clergywomen.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Marietta Holley
Because there was a separate class of clergy men in the world, but there was not a class of clergywomen in the world.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Marietta Holley
Had there been clergywomen, there would have been laywomen.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Marietta Holley
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