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deacon

noun as in clergyperson

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The deacon said he is demanding an explanation from Williams.

“His sermons were pretty much from his heart,” the deacon told us.

According to the deacon, Williams made countless house calls and hospital visits whenever he could.

Deacon Williams seemed to confirm this sentiment, saying, “as Christian people, we wanted him to get well.”

Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their Bowling Green presbyterian church, for damage control.

At last Deacon MacNab, the church treasurer and a personage of importance, got a chance to speak.

Of course there had been no organ in this church before, or the worthy deacon might have known more about it.

Then he returned to his province, entered the seminary, and became a sub-deacon of the diocese of Nueva Segovia.

The deacon pounded on the porch with his nearly finished leg, and grew red in the face.

How d'ye stand on the proposition to have the town build a sidewalk up the hill apast the Congregational church, Deacon?

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deacon, such as: cleric, elder, priest, and church officer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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