kirk session
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Also, my share in the matter I must tell in the kirk session; and Dominie de Ronde is not one slack in giving the reproof.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.
The next higher grade is the Women Workers’ Guild, for which a certain age is required, and an experience of at least three years, with the approval of the kirk session which enrolls them.
From Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Robinson, Jane M. Bancroft (Jane Marie Bancroft)
Joris felt that he must not take his seat among the deacons until he had been fully exonerated of all blame of blood-guiltiness by the dominie and his elders and deacons in full kirk session.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.
My first meeting with the kirk session of St. Cuthbert's was an epoch-marking incident.
From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.
Her father would be at the kirk session, and if Donald was there, he thought he knew how to whisper him away.
From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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