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Meanings of dominee in English

A clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson.

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        Examples for "dominie"
        Examples for "dominie"
        1
        The dominie was in his ninety-first year, and he was going home.
        Scottish sketches
        2
        With the doctor came the dominie and two of the town bailies.
        Scottish sketches
        3
        What the new dominie does do is to turn out excellent wage-slaves.
        A Dominie in Doubt
        4
        Even the dominie thought it right to come and give me admonition.
        The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York
        5
        Did ye no hear the dominie intryjuce him as the hoosier poet?
        Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
        1
        A Scots domine writes in his log:
        On The Art of Reading
        2
        Lastly he said in a loud voice, "Mi domine!"
        Filipino Popular Tales
        3
        After the domine salvum fac regem Charles X. again descends from the throne, and returns to the altar.
        The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
        4
        In the words of the dying Xavier, on the Island of Sancian, he exclaimed, In te domine speravi, non confundar in eternum.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Refor...
        5
        Domine Polhemus was chosen pastor, with a salary of six hundred guilders.
        Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
        1
        Terrae of course goes with fastidiosus, not with dominus.
        The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
        2
        All power is a domain, but there is no domain without a dominus or lord.
        The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny
        3
        Non supplex, sed magister aut dominus videretur esse judicum.
        Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
        4
        I must see the dominus at once.
        A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
        5
        The dominus of the sacred territory was the city, or the Roman state, not the sacred territory itself.
        The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny
        Usage of dominee in English
        1
        I truly hope that the young man Maimane, can learn to become a statesman and not a dominee.
        The South African
        2
        Dominee Barendsen, like so many of his colleagues, tries to meet this difficulty by giving light nourishment in an attractive form.
        Dutch Life in Town and Country
        Dominee through the time