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PARSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person authorized to conduct religious worship
Example:
clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches
Synonyms:
curate; minister; minister of religion; parson; pastor; rector
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("parson" is a kind of...):
clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parson"):
ministrant (someone who serves as a minister)
Context examples:
The young Mrs. Eleanors and Mrs. Bridgets—starched up into seeming piety, but with heads full of something very different—especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at—and, in those days, I fancy parsons were very inferior even to what they are now.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The parson ran out as fast as he could, and the miller said: “It was true; I saw the black rascal with my own eyes.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You have lived the life of a nun: no doubt you are well drilled in religious forms;—Brocklehurst, who I understand directs Lowood, is a parson, is he not?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The parson went to the crowd, and declared that the mass had been said.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He is a parson.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
So words and tears were of no avail; the parson was sent for, and she was married to the fiddler.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Mr. St. John, when he grew up, would go to college and be a parson; and the girls, as soon as they left school, would seek places as governesses: for they had told her their father had some years ago lost a great deal of money by a man he had trusted turning bankrupt; and as he was now not rich enough to give them fortunes, they must provide for themselves.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Before long the sexton came by and saw his master, the parson, running behind three girls.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Why, I can get between the iron window-bars of the parson’s house, and throw you out whatever you want.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
In the meantime came the parson; the miller’s wife received him well, and said: “My husband is out, so we will have a feast.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
