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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "prelate" in a sentence

    prelate example sentences

    prelate


    1. If I wished I could go with him to see the bishop, but if I preferred, he would see that I continued on my way and avoid the prelate


    2. Had the recalcitrant prelate been all loving and forgiving and understanding I'd probably have struggled to change


    3. Where the announcement was made of his expulsion for leading a Greek protest against the visiting prelate from Canterbury


    4. For if he had had a vestige, would it not have prevented his launching into an irreverent conversation with a lady who was not only a stranger, but the wife of a prelate of the Church of England?'


    5. He told himself that the wife of a prelate, however ailing--and he believed with a man's simplicity on such points that she did ail--had no business to be inaccessible to real conversation


    6. With no one else on earth except his wife can a prelate or any other truly good and public man have real conversation without losing dignity, or, if the conversation should become very real, without losing office


    7. , "worthy of a prelate


    8. The learned prelate who administered the last comforts of holy religion to the hero martyr when about to pay the death penalty knelt in a most christian spirit in a pool of rainwater, his cassock above his hoary head, and offered up to the throne of grace fervent prayers of supplication


    9. Larose, his collaborator on la Foudre, said: "Bah! Who is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbe Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbe Frayssinous, who was not, as yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbe Keravenant, Cure of Saint-Germain-des-Pres; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of the saints, Postulatore dei Santi, which refers to matters of canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the section of Paradise


    10. It is a still more striking instance of the community of interest between the two kingdoms anterior to this war, that while we find a Scottish king devoting a great monastic establishment to the memory of an English prelate, we should find an English king conferring special privileges and immunities within his realm on the Scottish brotherhood

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    Synonyms for "prelate"

    archpriest hierarch high priest prelate primate pope cardinal

    "prelate" definitions

    a senior clergyman and dignitary