All 5 Uses of
clergy
in
Mansfield Park
- It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.†
Chpt 9 *
- The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners.†
Chpt 9
- The manners I speak of might rather be called conduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the effect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and recommend; and it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.†
Chpt 9
- It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy.†
Chpt 11
- She was afraid she had used some strong, some contemptuous expressions in speaking of the clergy, and that should not have been.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(clergy) formal religious leaders (typically in Christianity)editor's notes: Clergy is typically used in reference to Christian churches; however, clerics (members of the clergy) are referred to in different ways for different denominations. A Catholic priest is the equivalent of a Protestant minister. A pastor is any Christian cleric in charge of a congregation or parish. The clergy is distinguished from the laity.