What's the difference between seminarian and seminarist?

Seminarian


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Seminarist

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ‘I’m not so much with her as I am against the fascist Donald Trump’ Chris, 50, New York, voting for Hillary Clinton My name is Christopher; I am a gay African American illustrator and comic book artist living in New York City with my husband who is an Episcopal seminarian.
  • (2) That completely misunderstands the nature of the power a spiritual director has over his seminarians and a cardinal has over his priests.
  • (3) News of the apostolic visitation came via the papal nuncio, Antonio Mennini, in a meeting with one of the complainants, a former priest known as "Lenny" who accused the cardinal of making sexual advances to him when he was a seminarian.
  • (4) We were treated like VIPs, given a tour of the Vatican and the Basilica and dined with the seminarians after the game.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Argentinian seminarian Jorge Mario Bergoglio smiles for a portrait at the El Salvador school in 1966 where he taught literature and psychology in Buenos Aires.
  • (6) In 1963, the Shah ordered seminarians, technically exempt, to serve in the army.
  • (7) Its founder, the former Australian ambassador to the Vatican John McCarthy, filled the team with seminarians – trainee priests – from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
  • (8) Brown, a lifelong Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, announced he signed the legislation after thoroughly considering all opinions and discussing the issue with many people, including a Catholic bishop and two of Brown’s doctors.
  • (9) In terms of sensitivity to the stress that women in seminary and ministry experience, male and female seminarians and ministers were most aware of these issues, with priests (males only), nuns, and then brothers (in descending order) sensitive to these concerns.
  • (10) The seminarian says he was too frightened to report the incident, but says his personality changed afterwards, and his teachers regularly noted that he seemed depressed.
  • (11) Two years later came The Destroying Angel – a much darker piece, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; a nightmarish series of encounters for a young seminarian with a devilish character and magic mushrooms.
  • (12) The complainant, who is now married, was then a 20-year-old seminarian at St Andrew's College, Drygrange, where O'Brien was his "spiritual director".
  • (13) Viewing this need, a course was developed to train seminarians in principles and practices of community mental health.
  • (14) Stress in religious leaders was investigated by administering to 250 priests, ministers, seminarians, nuns, and brothers the specially devised Religion and Stress Questionnaire and the Osipow and Spokane Occupational Environment Scales, Personal Strain Questionnaire, and Personal Resources Questionnaire.
  • (15) The complainant was then a 20-year-old seminarian at St Andrew’s College, Drygrange, where O’Brien was his “spiritual director”.
  • (16) Hither anxiety was more characteristic of college students than seminarians.
  • (17) Now married, Lenny had been approached by the cardinal while a seminarian.
  • (18) General anxiety and evoked imagery of death as a person were measured in 75 male Catholic college students and seminarians.
  • (19) The prime minister, who was a seminarian, evidently has his views reinforced by his Catholicism; but he is unswayed by his sister Christine Forster, who wants to marry her female partner .
  • (20) Maynard’s story put a sympathetic public face on the right-to-die movement, which proved decisive when California Governor Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminarian, signed a similar bill the next year despite heavy pressure from religious groups.

Seminarist


Definition:

  • (n.) A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Our 60 seminarists are all learning a native language," he adds, "and the pope's visit will boost this drive."

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