All 11 Uses of
parish
in
Mansfield Park
- To prevent its being expected, she had fixed on the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel among the buildings of Mansfield parish, the White House being only just large enough to receive herself and her servants, and allow a spare room for a friend, of which she made a very particular point.†
Chpt 3
- A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the parish, that cannot be expected from me.†
Chpt 3 *
- Guess my surprise, when I found that I had been asking the most unreasonable, most impossible thing in the world; had offended all the farmers, all the labourers, all the hay in the parish!†
Chpt 6
- They have been buried, I suppose, in the parish church.†
Chpt 9
- A fine preacher is followed and admired; but it is not in fine preaching only that a good clergyman will be useful in his parish and his neighbourhood, where the parish and neighbourhood are of a size capable of knowing his private character, and observing his general conduct, which in London can rarely be the case.†
Chpt 9
- A fine preacher is followed and admired; but it is not in fine preaching only that a good clergyman will be useful in his parish and his neighbourhood, where the parish and neighbourhood are of a size capable of knowing his private character, and observing his general conduct, which in London can rarely be the case.†
Chpt 9
- Henry Crawford was gone, gone from the house, and within two hours afterwards from the parish; and so ended all the hopes his selfish vanity had raised in Maria and Julia Bertram.†
Chpt 20
- All this may be stamped on it; and that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great landholder of the parish by every creature travelling the road; especially as there is no real squire's house to dispute the point—a circumstance, between ourselves, to enhance the value of such a situation in point of privilege and independence beyond all calculation.†
Chpt 25
- But a parish has wants and claims which can be known only by a clergyman constantly resident, and which no proxy can be capable of satisfying to the same extent.†
Chpt 25
- "Sir Thomas," said Edmund, "undoubtedly understands the duty of a parish priest.†
Chpt 25
- Your cousin Edmund moves slowly; detained, perchance, by parish duties.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county