Clergyman

//ˈklɝd͡ʒimən//

"Clergyman" in a Sentence (8 examples)

The clergyman has married three couples this week.

At first they rejected the proposal, but a clergyman urged them to accept.

Spanish history is replete with official anti-Semitism: the 14th-century massacres of Jews in Seville, Córdoba and elsewhere, incited by a prominent Catholic clergyman; the Spanish Inquisition and forced religious conversions, beginning in the 15th century; and the expulsion of an estimated 70,000 Jews by decree of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Are you really a clergyman?

Tom is a clergyman.

Holonym: clergy

I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.

The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.

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