rectory
noun
a rector's house; parsonage.
rectories
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pluralof rectory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The data covers periods from 2018 to 2021 and the reports include images of certain addresses with location pings marked on top, such as parishes, rectories and seminaries.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023
Her novels pump in boosts of old-world elegance via jaunts to Italy or roomy seaside rectories; her white characters inhabit the world of wine-swirlers and are often impoverished by choice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
Jane Austen, Tennyson, and the Brontë sisters were all the product of rectories and parsonages.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
John Paul and Benedict tried to discipline unruly troops in the seminaries, rectories, universities, and parishes.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2014
All forty churches and eleven rectories that make up the diocese give food and money for the effort.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
