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Meanings of rector in English

Portuguese
clérigo
Catalan
rector
Spanish
párroco
Wikidata

A person authorized to conduct religious worship.

clérigo
Russian
ретторе
Portuguese
reitoria
Spanish
rector
Catalan
rector

Academic official.

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ретторе
Russian
ректор
Catalan
rector
Spanish
rector

Ecclesiastical profession.

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ректор

Anglican cleric in charge of a parish and its tithes.

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Examples for "rectoress"
Examples for "rectoress"
1
It is a royal foundation, and a rectoress lives there.
History of the Philippine Islands
2
My tutor's peculiarities, however, were not confined to his endeavours to meet with a lady rectoress.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
3
And those four were, by force of circumstance, Robin Cockscroft and Joan his wife, the rector and the rectoress.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
4
In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself, and her daughters sighed and sat over the Peerage all night.
Vanity Fair
Usage of rector in English
1
I asked the rector, and he said, Yes, how did you know?
A duty to the dead
2
Early in the morning the rector came to me at the inn.
Little Novels
3
The dear rector of course would marry them in this simple manner.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
4
No voice was raised to blame the rector; the bishop kept silence.
An Old Maid
5
The air changed with the arrival of the new rector, the Rev.
Days Off, and Other Digressions
6
In dress, the wife of the rector of Wrexby was their model.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
7
Of course it was when the rector was alone in his study.
Daniel Deronda
8
The rector was almost taken aback by the abruptness of the request.
The Claverings
9
At Lisnamara, the rector invited him to preach in the parish church.
A History of the Moravian Church
10
But none the less the rector felt that the cloud had vanished.
The Hallam Succession
11
The rector was the first in, humming a song, and spied me.
Richard Carvel — Volume 03
12
His father was a baronet; his mother, the daughter of a rector.
Halleck's New English Literature
13
Ann Holland was almost as general a favorite as the rector himself.
Brought Home
14
The rector was restless and full of meditation all the following morning.
Desperate Remedies
15
The rector, eyes on the gleaming cross above the altar, repeated softly:
Dangerous Days
16
But Sally sought the rector in his study, and she was trembling.
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