| 词汇 | clergyman |
| 释义 | clergyman noun[ C ] uk /ˈklɜː.dʒi.mən/ us /ˈklɝː.dʒi.mən/plural-menuk /ˈklɜː.dʒi.mən/ us /ˈklɝː.dʒi.mən/ a man who is a member of the clergy（男）牧师，教士 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 He was destined to be a clergyman. She wasn't used to beautiful long words like that, except on Sundays when the clergyman read the prayers in church, and she wasn't used to politeness. The average clergyman cannot hope to amass wealth. The clergyman in the pulpit turned and looked through a window behind him, while all the congregation rose. clergyman | American Dictionaryclergyman noun[ C ] us/ˈklɜr·dʒi·mən/pluralclergymenus/ˈklɜr·dʒi·mən, -ˌmen/clergywomenus/ˈklɜr·dʒiˌwɪm·ən/(femaleclergywoman, us/ˈklɜr·dʒiˌwʊm·ən/) a member of the clergy Examples of clergymanclergyman Senior government officials and clergymen also had special pension systems. This reference to the singers' local and foreign origins clearly suggests an occasion at which an international public, including clergymen, would have been present. Not once do we hear from them directly, but only about their degraded state from clergymen, physicians, and secretaries of burial and benefit clubs. Clearly this was happening when clergymen were rough-musicked, or jostled, or mocked in effigy. His letters and diary for these months are not those of a prospective clergyman but a geologist. The position of the clergyman is equally ambiguous. Throughout his writing and in his pictures, one feels the positive, sympathetic and supportive role of this clergyman. Some of the part-time clergymen are particularly known to be engaged in non-clerical occupations with less favourable health risks. Most towns had a full complement of clergymen, lawyers and doctors, all jostling for position and status. And why, when the clergyman (often justifiably) thought of himself as working unstintingly in his parishioners' interests, was he so often heartily despised by them? The plot in the north-eastern part of the block was inhabited by clergymen. Links with clergymen employed by the convent or friars from a nearby male community, although proscribed, provided female religious with an obvious source of company. After all, clergymen could take part in their capacity as individual citizens. Like other members of society, clergymen became more prosperous, a fact which, in turn, drew a higher class of person to the profession. Some parents waited months and years before having their children baptised by a passing clergyman of their own faith. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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