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Meanings of churchman in English

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clérigo
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eclesiàstic
Spanish
clérigo
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A clergyman or other person in religious orders.

        clérigo
        Usage of churchman in English
        1
        The Norman duke was subtle, but the Italian churchman was subtler still.
        William the Conqueror
        2
        Mother, as a soldier, I MAY attain distinction; as a churchman, never.
        Prince Eugene and His Times
        3
        He is, however, very strict in religious matters, and a staunch churchman.
        Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
        4
        That was the mock churchman's shortest way for the suppression of Dissent.
        Daniel Defoe
        5
        But we are not concerned to study him as a good churchman.
        The Life of Cesare Borgia
        6
        Reginald here will be a churchman and serve the king and God.
        The King’s Curse
        7
        I have heard you say yourself what an excellent churchman he is.'
        The Three Clerks
        8
        That is your answer, that is the sum of your churchman's argument!
        The White Sister
        9
        Etienne hid his face in his mantle; the churchman and nobles conferred together.
        The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendun...
        10
        But in the eyes of the lady Petronilla, Leander was an ideal churchman.
        Veranilda
        11
        He is, in my judgment, a fine human being and a great churchman.
        News.com.au
        12
        He was a strong churchman and especially interested in education and the colonies.
        Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold
        13
        Favourite quote: A good churchman is always up in everybody's shit.
        The Guardian
        14
        The Yankee Puritans were evidently not to be outmanaged by the English churchman.
        The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 / Devoted To...
        15
        In this respect Las Casas, though a churchman, was very different from Columbus.
        The Life of Columbus
        16
        But the churchman had a right to a more direct reply.
        The White Sister
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