parishioner
[puh-rish-uh-ner]
noun
one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
Origin of parishioner
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Related Words for parishioner
church, throng, crowd, parish, gathering, audience, flock, dilettante, outsider, proselyte, secular, novice, recruit, believer, member, follower, neophyte, community, fold, territoryExamples from the Web for parishioner
Contemporary Examples of parishioner
A parishioner who is a doctor then informed the police that Freed was beyond medical help.
Historical Examples of parishioner
Some time after, he applied to a parishioner to lend him twenty pounds.
You must remember that my father is a parishioner of Mr. Swancourt's.'
A Pair of Blue EyesThomas Hardy
Isn't it our business if he breaks his word with a parishioner of ours?
The HeroWilliam Somerset Maugham
The utterance stayed in the parishioner's soul, sounding solemnly on.
To My Younger BrethrenHandley C. G. Moule
If a parishioner dying in the small-pox sent to you, would you not go?
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.W. M. Thackeray
parishioner
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