ecclesiastic
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One would think that such a noble ecclesiastic gathering would be governed by wisdom and good sense.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
“Assuming our right to decide and dissent with the ecclesiastic hierarchy allows us, as Catholics who embrace our faith, to make decisions in freedom and choose our own life project,” said activist Maribel Luna.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
“There is nothing of the sour expecting-damnation ecclesiastic about this expostulator,” wrote Variety critic Robert Landry, who had his fill of Bible-thumping evangelists like Billy Sunday, in 1931.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2021
Nuns are obliged to wear their ecclesiastic clothes at all times.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2019
As an ecclesiastic he was pious, pure, simple in his mode of life, charitable, and a learned and liberal patron of letters; but as a sovereign he proved weak, timid and incapable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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