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  • noun Plural form of reverend.

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Examples

  • They are suspicious of Arizona Senator John McCain, who once called the reverends Falwell and Robinson "agents of intolerance."

    CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2007 2007

  • Not to mention all the overtly neo-fascist protestant propaganda mills and all the "reverends" who get rich off them.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • The pattern is only broken when their "reverends" and "community activists" inform them that they must vote for the white Dem against the black Republican "Uncle Tom".

    "To honor and celebrate" the "voices and votes" of the primaries, "both Senator Obama's and Senator Clinton's names will be placed in nomination." Ann Althouse 2008

  • The ramp goes down, and a litter carrying Obama is born by Jesse Jackson, The Clintons, Al Sharpton, and the King Children separated based on current King Family lawsuits against one another by the "reverends".

    So here's the new New Yorker cover. Ann Althouse 2008

  • On the right and on the left, ordained and self-proclaimed "reverends" and honorary "doctors" appear to spend more time trying to reform a fallen and decaying world through politics and earthly power than they do promoting and proclaiming the ultimate answer to that fallenness.

    September 2005 2005

  • If there are still enough "reverends" to do the work, that is.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • But when things come to such a pass that this fellow Frazer or any of the rest of these infidels from one of these here Eastern colleges is allowed to stand up on his hind legs in a college building and bray about anarchism and tell us to trample on the old flag that we fought for, and none of these professors that call themselves 'reverends' step in and stop him, then let me tell you

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • "reverends," Reverend Leroy was a con artist who, among other things, once took up an offering to go to Las Vegas, explaining he had to study sin in order to effectively preach against it.

    TheSunNews.com: Local 2009

  • And rational people, of course, stepped out of the argument altogether, since once your rights are in place, who cares what a couple of reverends say on morning telly?

    Abortion and euthanasia: was Virginia Ironside right? Zoe Williams 2010

  • In the fine catalog of the exhibition, Warren Adelson writes that Rembert draws heavily from his own experience, populating his paintings with pool sharks, reverends, midwives and chain gangs, all of which come to life with the richness and vitality of oral tradition.

    Terence Clarke: The Art of Winfred Rembert Terence Clarke 2011

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