All 3 Uses of
parish
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- His surname was Cruncher, and on the youthful occasion of his renouncing by proxy the works of darkness, in the easterly parish church of Hounsditch, he had received the added appellation of Jerry.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- As a consequence, country airs circulated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.†
Chpt 2.6
- Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it wos so.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county