parson
noun
a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
parsonical
-
a word derived from
parson.
Example Sentences
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Jane Austen isn't castigated for wasting her time on parsonical gentry; she is praised for being so honest as to write only about what she knew.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2013
British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical."
From Time Magazine Archive
He walked quickly, though he was tired and hot; tall, upright, and thin, in a grey parsonical suit, on whose black kerseymere vest a little gold cross dangled.
From Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy
"Now, Bill Gray, that's a very parsonical view of yours, isn't it?" said Holgate with a sneer.
From Hurricane Island by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson
So long has the narrow, parsonical, cynical contempt for the understanding of the lower classes prevailed—through our fault—a reversal to blind worship of the masses, of the immature and the unsuccessful, is not inexcusable.
From The New Society by Arthur Windham
