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parsonage

[pahr-suh-nij] / ˈpɑr sə nɪdʒ /
NOUN
rectory
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Perhaps, given your vocation, you also benefited from a parsonage at some point.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

It begins in a country parsonage, moves through social insecurity to final productive years in a cottage Austen shared with a beloved sister, mother and close friend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Turner went out to the street, looked at the green shutters of Mrs. Hurd’s house, and walked back to the parsonage.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt


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