Both Uses of
parish
in
War and Peace
- On Sunday morning Marya Dmitrievna invited her visitors to Mass at her parish church—the Church of the Assumption built over the graves of victims of the plague.†
Chpt 8 *
- By Agrafena Ivanovna's advice Natasha prepared herself not in their own parish, but at a church where, according to the devout Agrafena Ivanovna, the priest was a man of very severe and lofty life.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county