• Synonyms: clergy
  Meaning: in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)

• He then turned his attention to the clergy already there.
• Occasionally he would relieve one or other of the local clergy.
• Hypatia was murdered in church, and by the clergy, because she was not orthodox.
• Her innocent blood stained the hands of the clergy, who also handle the Holy Sacraments.
• But if they have the Church and the clergy on their side, this state of things is quite changed.
• Edmund Drake his father, was one of those clergy who devote themselves to the education of the people.
• For this act the clergy placed his portrait on the altar in the churches between two great lighted candle-sticks.
• The people of all Southern Europe look upon a married clergy as not only irreligious, but unchaste, indecent, gross, disgusting.
• The dissenting clergy are, as my husband says was the case in England before the great civil war, the fomenters of this discontent.
• In other words, only those passages in the bible are authentic which the clergy quote; those which the rationalists quote are spurious.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Catholic Church, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Backgammon, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Thomas Jefferson, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording William the Conqueror, License CC BY-SA 4.0