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parson

[pahr-suhn] / ˈpɑr sən /


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Roy is mirrored in turn by the later appearance of another parson, Preston Teagardin, played by Robert Pattinson with the same lip-smacking comic flamboyance he recently brought to “The King.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2020

The sympathetic parson will reassure him, we think, but that’s not what happens.

From Salon Jul. 6, 2018

The mission failed, and Thomas was immortalized as “the parson of the islands.”

From Washington Post Sep. 2, 2017

If this strikes you as an unusual view for a parson, you are not alone.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2017

Medicine just like the Apothecary refused to make for the parson.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness

Here are striding parsons, botanising antiquarians, madmen, painters and poets.

From Economist Nov. 13, 2014

On his deathbed in 1855 at the age of 42, Kierkegaard refused all churchly ministrations, saying that "the parsons are royal functionaires, and royal functionaires are not related to Christianity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Runcie admits that his Scottish engineer father had a "profound distrust of parsons."

From Time Magazine Archive

When he reappeared and gave the thumbs-up sign, all six parsons trooped in, 30-year-old Pastor Arthur Bird's black & white accordion braying deafeningly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Any one could see with half an eye that the woman was as pious as could be—the kind that was hand and glove with parsons.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie




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