All 4 Uses of
seminary
in
The Color Purple
- I was acting like somebody because I was Samuel's wife, and a Spelman Seminary graduate, and he treated me like any ordinary nigger.†
- And when Corrine was old enough, she sent her to Spelman Seminary where Aunt Theodosia had gone.
*seminary = a school for training ministers
- But I always thought their unofficial motto should have been our community covers the world, because no sooner had a young woman got through Spelman Seminary than she began to put her hand to whatever work she could do for her people, anywhere in the world.†
- These very polite and proper young women, some of them never having set foot outside their own small country towns, except to come to the Seminary, thought nothing of packing up for India, Africa, the Orient.†
Definition:
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(seminary) a school for training ministers, priests, or rabbis