abbé

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Morse got most of this story from a book written by a Scottish academic named John Robison, who in turn took many of his ideas from the abbé de Barruel, a French priest.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2022

He even took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865, becoming an abbé but appropriately stopping short of the vow of chastity.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2011

This smoothness has perhaps a slight tinge of the priestly—for, as Renan first studied for the priesthood, so Dupont-Sommer was once an abbé.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

His father married again; the stepmother did not get on well with Paul, and he was half obliged and half induced to become an abbé.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

There is an abbé here who is making a great bother by curing by sympathy.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various