(n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case study is presented in which a maternity patient with a history of schizophrenia and pyromania informs a hospital social worker that she and her infant will live temporarily with a clergyman and his family.
(2) The police officer who walks a man around the block or fails to show up when called, the clergyman who advises a woman to go home and pray, the doctor who gently patches her injuries but avoids asking who inflicted them, all cooperate with the abusive man in several ways.
(3) News of the second site emerged shortly after the clergyman at the centre of the dispute about anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul's broke a week's silence to defend the decision to close the cathedral.
(4) The original referred to the Rev JP Huddle of The Unrest Cure as a boring clergyman.
(5) John is in a long-term relationship with another clergyman, which he has affirmed is celibate.
(6) The treatment of Dorothy in The Clergyman's Daughter, adds Stock, "is similarly sexist, bordering on misogynistic".
(7) Indeed, there was a faint hint of the clergyman about Knuckles himself.
(8) There was certainly no whale when it came to the museum in 1873, bequeathed by Edward Kerrich, a clergyman, artist, and collector; the museum was probably much more excited by his oil sketches by Rubens, and drawings by masters including Albrecht Dürer.
(9) Cardinal Keith O'Brien , archbishop of St Andrews, the most senior Roman Catholic clergyman in the country, resigned over "inappropriate" behaviour in the past.
(10) Instead of ideological hoeing at Brook Farm, Hawthorne wanders, both in pen and person, through the old orchard, planted by a clergyman in his old age "when the neighbours laughed at the hoary-headed man for planting trees from which he could have no prospect of gathering fruit...
(11) Hebden, an Anglican clergyman, told the court: "The decision to pilot armed drones from Waddington makes RAF Waddington a war zone.
(12) Ehrlich has become the modern day equivalent of Malthus , the 18th-century English clergyman who popularised the idea that the number of people would eventually outstrip food production.
(13) She suggests a general conversation with the clergyman on the risks of housing transients as an alternative to silence or breach of confidentiality.
(14) The clergyman, who argues that Inwood unlawfully discriminated against him, told the first day of hearings at Nottingham employment tribunal how he felt after his permission to officiate (PTO) was revoked.
(15) "I do understand when people feel that this is inexplicable, and I can understand people being angry about it, because having spent years on a low income as a clergyman I know what it is like when your household budget is blown apart by a significant extra fuel bill and your anxiety levels become very high.
(16) This instrument is to the future doctor what the badge is to the policeman, the white scarf is to the pilot, and the reverse collar is to the clergyman ... a symbol of arrival at a goal, long dreamed of and worked for: we now knew we were accepted into the fraternity of medicine.
(17) I am a clergyman, but I was attracted to this job because I saw the way people died, especially as I lost my best friend and my wife also lost her best friend through this epidemic.
(18) The social worker, aware of the patient's history and concerned for the family, asks the patient for permission to discuss her problems with the clergyman, but is refused.
(19) John has a long-term relationship with Grant Holmes, another C of E clergyman, and the couple entered a civil partnership in 2006.
(20) Three priests and a former priest in Scotland have reported the most senior Catholic clergyman in Britain, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, to the Vatican over allegations of inappropriate behaviour stretching back 30 years.
Shaveling
Definition:
(n.) A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.