ecclesiastics

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“So many disloyal actions on the part of ecclesiastics are born of the lack of a sense of having been shown compassion, and by the habit of averting one’s gaze, the habit of indifference.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2019

But everybody comes across as human here: the conniving ecclesiastics who propel Henry into war, the fatuous French Dauphin, the speechifying Welsh Captain Fluellen and Henry's disreputable old chums from his wild youth.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2012

The gold canopy, the procession of ecclesiastics, the charming boys’ choir.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2010

The possibility of such an event arises chiefly from the fact that Parliament has relinquished much of its control of the Church to ecclesiastics, and among the latter Anglo-Catholics are comparatively strong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Counting, moreover, the missionaries scattered among the Indian tribes, we may safely say that the American Republic contained at the period of which we are speaking not fewer than thirty or forty ecclesiastics.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.