All 12 Uses
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- When he quitted the seminary he had a small income inherited from his father, which, as soon as he got his church, he forwarded promptly on receipt of the quarterly checks to an institution for delinquent girls in Memphis.†
Chpt 3
- And how Hightower had come straight to Jefferson from the seminary, refusing to accept any other call; how he had pulled every string he could in order to be sent to Jefferson.†
Chpt 3 *
- Then one day while at the seminary he realised that he was no longer afraid.†
Chpt 13
- He has had it ever since the seminary.†
Chpt 13
- He can remember how when he was young, after he first came to Jefferson from the seminary, how that fading copper light would seem almost audible, like a dying yellow fall of trumpets dying into an interval of silence and waiting, out of which they would presently come.†
Chpt 20
- Woman (not the seminary, as he had once believed): the Passive and Anonymous whom God had created to be not alone the recipient and receptacle of the seed of his body but of his spirit too, which is truth or as near truth as he dare approach.†
Chpt 20
- While at the seminary, after he first came there, he often thought how he would tell them, the elders, the high and sanctified men who were the destiny of the church to which he had willingly surrendered.†
Chpt 20
- He believed with a calm joy that if ever there was shelter, it would be the Church; that if ever truth could walk naked and without shame or fear, it would be in the seminary.†
Chpt 20
- That was what the word seminary meant: quiet and safe walls within which the hampered and garmentworried spirit could learn anew serenity to contemplate without horror or alarm its own nakedness.†
Chpt 20
- He had not needed to live in the seminary a year before he learned better than that.†
Chpt 20
- He believed at once that his own belief about the seminary had been wrong all the while.†
Chpt 20
- He seems to watch himself, alert, patient, skillful, playing his cards well, making it appear that he was being driven, uncomplaining, into that which he did not even then admit had been his desire since before he entered the seminary.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(seminary) a school for training clerics -- usually ministers, priests, or rabbis
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)