ecclesiastical
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He also acknowledged that earlier in the Middle Ages, ecclesiastical institutions had their own slaves.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
The day marks the beginning of Lent, the most solemn season of repentance in the ecclesiastical year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Yet despite the local ecclesiastical authorities approving the scene, the installation in central Brussels has come under fire online since opening on Friday, with right-wing Belgian politician Georges-Louis Bouchez even comparing the figures to "zombies".
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
“BYU is a part of the Church and is a university that stands to help promote the Church’s ecclesiastical mission. I think that’s a form of messaging through one of its institutions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
The limitation of both ethnic and ecclesiastical modes was that you had to stay in whatever mode you had started in for the duration of the performance.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing ecclesiastical
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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