- plural of clergyman.
clergymen
Example Sentences
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Ebel and Diestel were provincial clergymen, scarcely known outside their parishes until, as Mr. Clark says, scandal tightened around them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Between the pomp surrounding donning one’s holy livery, pointed glares and swishing red silks and velvets, these cassocked clergymen make bored teenagers seem kind.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
Safronov was among the clergymen who signed a public letter calling for the remains to be returned to his family.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
Making and remaking the common culture that bound together clergymen, mathematicians, instrument makers and aristocrats such as James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, and George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, required constant effort.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
