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Paulist

American

[paw-list] / ˈpɔ lɪst /

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.

Etymology

Origin of Paulist

First recorded in 1880–85; Paul + -ist

Example Sentences

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But the awards were founded in 1974 by the most peculiar sort of hyphenate: a 6-foot-7 priest-producer named Father Ellwood “Bud” Kieser of the church’s Paulist Fathers society.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

But Father Dick Sparks, a Paulist priest in Vero Beach, Florida, said that a case can be made for it.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

The vast, open spaces around spiritual spots like the Paulist seminary and St. Anselm’s Abbey added a feeling of seemingly God-inspired peace and quiet.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2013

He entered the Paulist novitiate in 1962 and was ordained in 1969.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2010

Less than a month before his death he fell into conversation with a newsboy on the corner near the Paulist church in Fifty-ninth Street.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

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