cleric

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Religious leaders & officials
anti-papal
apostolic
archbishop
archbishopric
archdeacon
confessor
curacy
curate
deacon
minister
ministry
muezzin
mullah
non-clerical
priestly
primate
rabbi
rabbinical
the Dalai Lama
the priesthood

Examples from literature

Advancing years brought conservatism, and they became in time loyal Tories and orthodox churchmen. 
He said, 'I perceive you are a churchman.' I answered I was. 
He was one of the wisest and most temperate churchmen of his time. 
The churchman, to whom he was next presented, eyed him with a glance of mingled dislike and curiosity. 

Examples of churchman

churchman
It had seemed - and was in part intended as - irreverent, and calculated to make austere churchmen and political moralists appear crude and unsophisticated.
Many ' rising men ' supplemented a core group of senior churchmen, ensuring that the commission was both intellectually highpowered and politically astute.
Those churchmen and others demonstrate that there were sensitive supporters of modern religious art among the clergy.
The latter spaces, with their dais ends, expressed the hierarchical vision of the dominant churchmen.
The documents so far have been those of politicians and high churchmen, where details of musical practice were not likely to enter.
Although he was a conscientious landlord and a devoted churchman, his most lasting influence was on the life of the village.
These did not rouse the ire of churchmen because they did not claim to be truth even though they might serve to inspire the devout.
Wealthy churchmen, it seems, prospered at juniors' expense.
More and more, both churchmen and philosophers chafed irritably with early medieval practices of text setting.
Ordinarily, high churchmen abhorred the idea of baptism by total immersion.
Moreover, aside from agreeing about the importance of religion, churchmen and statesmen had always agreed about the ideal of social and political stability.
It must be emphasized that these views were not the expressions of a small minority of unionist politicians and conservative churchmen.
When there was so much jostling among the gentry for positions among the quorum, there may have been resentment of churchmen in this select group.
They are not taught to be churchmen.
The provisions for the aged-poor indicate that many landlords - bishops and senior churchmen as well as secular notables - assumed some ' seigniorial ' responsibility for those without means.
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