All 7 Uses
seminary
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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- He spent six years at some American seminary.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Twenty-eight years — that immeasurable period between his birth and his first parish: all childhood and youth and the seminary lay there.†
Chpt 1.2
- Literary phrases from what seemed now to be another life altogether — the strict quiet life of the seminary — became confused on his tongue: the names of precious stones: Jerusalem the Golden.†
Chpt 2.1
- It seemed to him that the dunce of any seminary could have done as well...or better.†
Chpt 2.1
- It was an English book, but from his years in an American seminary he retained enough English to read it, with a little difficulty.†
Chpt 2.4
- Suddenly he remembered — for no apparent reason — a day of rain at the American seminary, the glass windows of the library steamed over with the central heating, the tall shelves of sedate books, and a young man — a stranger from Tuscon — drawing his initials on the pane with his finger — that was peace.†
Chpt 2.4
- Did he remember days in the seminary, the kindly rebukes of his elders, the moulding discipline, days, too, of frivolity when he acted Nero before the old bishop?†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(seminary) a school for training clerics -- usually ministers, priests, or rabbis
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)