All 3 Uses of
prelate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The plump shadowed face and sullen oval jowl recalled a prelate, patron of arts in the middle ages.†
Chpt 1 *
- Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O'Connell did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue?†
Chpt 2
- The learned prelate who administered the last comforts of holy religion to the hero martyr when about to pay the death penalty knelt in a most christian spirit in a pool of rainwater, his cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the throne of grace fervent prayers of supplication.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(prelate) a member of the Christian clergy with high rank -- such as a bishop or abbot