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- noun Plural form of
clergyman .
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Examples
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Sweden certain English clergymen, who laboured there with great success.
A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient) John Henry Blunt
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Catholic Church over which Cæcilianus presides, who give their services to this holy religion, and who are commonly called clergymen, be entirely exempted from all public duties, that by any error or sacrilegious negligence they may not be drawn away from the service due to the Deity, but may devote themselves without any hindrance to their own law.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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"But, father," Flossy said, speaking somewhat timidly, as she could not help doing when she talked about these matters to her father, "if we call clergymen our spiritual guides, and look up to them to set examples for us to follow, what is the use of the example if we don't follow it at all, but conclude they are simply doing things for their own benefit?"
The Chautauqua Girls At Home 1841-1930 Pansy 1885
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A motion to exempt clergymen from the conscription was voted down.
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American missionaries, and put themselves under the exclusive instruction of clergymen from the English Church.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838
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We must bear in mind that the clergymen were the early historians of the country; and they put much gloom in their writings.
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It is a fact that actors who study the method of voice production do not suffer from that form of sore throat known as clergymen's sore throat, simply because they have learned to produce their voice in this way.
Papers on Health John Kirk
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Those known as clergymen invariably command respect from everybody, and it would be very easy for them to be always recognizable.
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams 1878
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Lord Stanhope, in his "History of England from the Peace of Utrecht," writes as if the Irish clergymen -- the clergymen, that is, of the Established Church of Ireland -- might have accomplished wonders in the way of converting the Irish peasantry to Protestantism if they only could have preached and controverted in the Irish language.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871
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I could even name clergymen of all denominations who hold
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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