Clergyman Keeping Company With Another

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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noun • a Protestant layman who assists the minister • a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
	36%	12		Religious decision to turn a clergyman into a non-clergyman
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	28%	10		Heartless clergyman engages "scarlet woman" before father of clergyman
noun • conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)

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