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Definition
relating to the countryside — especially idealizing charmingly simple and serene country life
- After his discharge from the hospital, he returned to the tiny Noborimachi chapel he had helped build, and there he continued his self-abnegating pastoral life.Five — The Aftermath (31% in)
- After he came back from a long hike of pastoral calls, the Misasa housekeeper would see him collapse on the steps of his rectory, head down — a figure, it seemed, of utter defeat.Five — The Aftermath (33% in)
There are no more uses of "pastoral" in Hiroshima.
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