parson

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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

In chapter 36, Lucy arrives at the home of a priggish parson, whose wife is desperately ill with typhoid.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2020

In a dreary Yankee prison, the rebel confronts his mortal fate before a parson.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018

“The point is not what I see, but what I feel,” he explains to the local parson, William Ransome.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2017

It's where the parson goes, and you’re not the parson.'

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill