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- noun Plural form of
deaconship .
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None the less you must concede that the world has invariably progressed because, upon the whole, we find civilisation to be more comfortable than barbarism; and that a wholesome apprehension of the penitentiary enables many of us to rise to deaconships.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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