ecclesiastical
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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
Since that time, she said she had "remained consistent" in her pursuit of "proper ecclesiastical judicial process".
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
Only ecclesiastical principalities now remain to be discussed.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Vocabulary lists containing ecclesiastical
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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