(a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(2) Pope decries 'inhuman' conditions for migrants on US-Mexico border Read more Last Christmas, though, the Jesuit reverend who runs Kino discovered that a very powerful man is paying close attention.
(3) "When the Reverend Flowers gave evidence to the [Treasury] select committee, he was quite clear that the Co-op's expansion, in particular the attempt to buy 600 Lloyds branches, which the bank was in no position to do ultimately, had been actively encouraged by Conservative ministers at the Treasury.
(4) President Bush and Mrs Bush, Governor Bentley, members of Congress, Mayor Evans, Reverend Strong, friends and fellow Americans: There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.
(5) An overcome Esaw Garner was escorted from the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, which was packed with hundreds of people.
(6) Seeing this legislation come out of a state I know and love has been painful.” Standing next to him, Linda Whitworth-Reed, a Presbyterian reverend in Little Rock, agreed.
(7) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
(8) But the AMA Coalition chair, Reverend LeRoy Haynes, like others pressing for police reform, is also critical of the agreement because he says the Justice Department sidestepped the real issue – race.
(9) The prime minister describes the fallen reverend as the "man who has broken a bank" and "trooped in and out of Downing Street under Labour".
(10) The reverend Paul Flowers is accused of possessing drugs including cocaine and crystal meth .
(11) Today we are in a battle to stop this state taking rights away from North Carolina citizens – this is our Selma,” said Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, the lead plaintiff.
(12) When I was on a panel this spring in San Francisco with Alicia Garza, a co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter , she said Ferguson marked “the first time in my lifetime”‚ in which the Reverends “Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were begged to leave” the scene of a civil rights crime.
(13) For example, he could not work out how Thomas could describe a portrait of the Reverend Eli Jenkins's mother as "propped against a pot in a palm".
(14) The evangelical Christian university was founded by televangelist Reverend Jerry Falwell, and is known for hosting only the most conservative Republican candidates on its campus.
(15) President Barack Obama on Friday made his second speech on race issues in two days, telling the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference in New York that the Republican party was threatening voting rights more than at any time since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
(16) Schad's pastor, the Reverend Ronald Koplitz, said the statement likely was a reference to "I'll Fly Away," a Gospel song he gave Schad a couple of weeks ago.
(17) He seems as agitated by his home state’s drama with the Confederate flag as he is by how state officials have refused to expand Medicaid health cover for the poor largely with federal money – an issue of importance to one of those killed in the church attack, Reverend Senator Clementa Pinckney , who Jackson knew.
(18) The Reverend Robert Weiss said he was planning to keep the church open 24 hours on the anniversary of the shooting, to give people a place to go and pray.
(19) "In view of this, and having spoken to the Reverend Jeremy Pemberton, his permission to officiate in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham was revoked," he said.
(20) The Reverend Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest and prominent local activist, said he thought the march itself would cost businesses money because the publicity surrounding it would discourage shoppers from even venturing into the area.
Vicar
Definition:
(n.) One deputed or authorized to perform the functions of another; a substitute in office; a deputy.
(n.) The incumbent of an appropriated benefice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statutory age of retirement for clergy is 70, although vicars’ terms can be extended by his or her bishop.
(2) Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, who last month became the second Church of England priest to marry his same sex partner , said on Twitter that the treatment of Pemberton was "further evidence of the profound homophobia at the heart of the church" .
(3) An alliance of Church of England parishes meeting this week for the first time could be the first step towards a split, the vicar leading the talks has suggested.
(4) "Well, it was quite an education for me, whose grandparents on both sides had been vicars."
(5) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(6) The curveball came when he shared vocal duties on Live Forever with Martin, whom he has variously compared unfavourably with a vicar, a geography teacher and a presenter of the children’s TV show The Tweenies.
(7) And yet the vicar of HTB, Nicky Gumbel , is almost certainly a more influential figure in England than Welby, his notional boss.
(8) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
(9) My husband went to see the local vicar, who lives in a modest vicarage beside the old one, and met there other neighbours from nearby streets.
(10) One encounters these inner-city vicars who don't seem to mind what you believe – some will even say that the resurrection is but a metaphor – but don't be fooled.
(11) Journalists remind us that the prime minister is a vicar’s daughter.
(12) A vicar of Waresley used to visit this wood every week for divine inspiration, walking the paths, writing sermons in his head.
(13) It may not be the funniest TV show ever created, but it is substantially funnier than My Hero, The Kevin Bishop Show, My Family, The High Life, Waiting For God, Keeping Up Appearances, The Thin Blue Line, 3 Non Blondes, Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor, Plus One, Grownups, Little Miss Jocelyn, Early Doors, The Sketch Show, Outnumbered, The In-Betweeners, Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Hyperdrive, The Vicar Of Dibley, Ideal, Benidorm, and Still Game, and nobody bangs on about how bad they are.
(14) They came from all walks of life – we had shop workers, property developers, a single mother, even a vicar, which I did think was strange.
(15) A vicar once explained to me that the reason the congregation stands for much of the music at Evensong is that, "It's not a concert."
(16) P Hunt, who went to Vicars Hill school in Boldre, may not realise it, but his 'HISTRY' exercise book is now in the British Library.
(17) Welby, an Eton-educated former oil industry executive who joined the church as a vicar in Warwickshire, will be enthroned at Canterbury cathedral in front of 2,000 guests, including Prince Charles and the prime minister, David Cameron.
(18) When you finish eighth in a byelection on 451 votes, behind a local vicar and self-styled "White Knight", where are you?
(19) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
(20) In his memoir , Brown’s former aide Damian McBride candidly describes the thrill of having the ear of one of the most powerful men in the land – though he confesses the prime minister would “stare at [him] sullenly for a moment or two, then say: ‘Get me Ed Balls.’” I certainly met plenty of chiefs of staff and spin doctors who jealously guarded their privileged access to a particular politician and their status as that MP’s “vicar on Earth”.