All 3 Uses of
parish
in
Persuasion
- I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.†
Chpt 5
- My only doubt is, whether anything could persuade him to leave his parish.†
Chpt 12 *
- She could have said more on the subject; for she had in fact so high an opinion of the Crofts, and considered her father so very fortunate in his tenants, felt the parish to be so sure of a good example, and the poor of the best attention and relief, that however sorry and ashamed for the necessity of the removal, she could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay, and that Kellynch Hall had passed into better hands than its owners'.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county