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

When a country parson published the first two volumes of the rollicking, digressive The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, in 1759, it quickly became a publishing sensation.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2017

The parson refused to believe the Apothecary could help, said the monster.

From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness