Similar words: energy, allergic, clerk, ruler, emerge, gallery, killer, dealer. Meaning: ['klɜːdʒɪ] n. in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity).
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61. This time about 120 people turned up, mainly business and professional people, clergy, trade-unionists and political leaders.
62. Church musicians might be encouraged to attend such courses together with the clergy.
63. But a key element remained the considerable filial loyalty the catholic nationalists showed towards their clergy, bishops, and Popes.
64. Edward's treatment of the clergy during his reign was no different from his dealings with his lay subjects.
65. It was also a time of increased moral laxity among the clergy, not excluding the Popes.
66. After all, it is possible to argue that the most influential magicians in Catholic countries were the clergy.
67. Once ordained, clergy usually undergo some continuing training for a year or two.
68. The Church is still beset by those who believe that its ministry is the sole responsibility of the clergy.
69. The new clergy houses were of a quite different, selfless and holy Gothic architecture.
70. Wives shouldn't talk thus about their husbands, she thought resentfully, especially when they were clergy wives.
71. A serious controversy arose when the Wawne clergy decided that all the burials from Sutton should take place at Wawne.
72. The clergy, however, had already contributed handsomely to royal coffers before the crisis of the 1290s.
73. When kings were at loggerheads with their clergy, which was not their usual relationship, morality constituted the most dramatic battleground.
74. Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy, who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon!
75. A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.
76. Here too wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of the magistracy, the clergy and the landed aristocracy.
77. I think the idea was that a senior clergy should keep an eye on him, help him and so on.
78. The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
79. He hopes the meeting will help him and like-minded clergy who've found themselves in a religious dilemma.
80. There are more business people and other professionals,[Sentence dictionary] homemakers and clergy in the Lone Star brigade.
81. The household of the skilled potter became in income terms the equal of that of the lower clergy.
82. This outward looking emphasis does not stop with the clergy but is even more demanding for the bishops.
83. Clergy to her seemed quiet and gentlemanly people who preached about the four seasons and the attributes of the Deity.
84. It has generally been much more effective in forming the musical sensibilities of clergy than hit-and-run visits to theological colleges.
85. In 1640, parliament, with the agreement of Charles I, appointed a committee to investigate complaints against clergy.
86. Here was a real opportunity to show an unselfish patriotism on the part of the clergy.
87. Between 60 and 70 percent of Salisbury's clergy wives now work, and the church hierarchy encourages them to.
88. In many cases, perhaps, it simply meant that clergy and people were equally barbarous.
89. The clergy are seen as above criticism in their religious statements, and such criticism can cause considerable distress to many people.
90. Peers spiritual Until the fourteenth century, all clergy were summoned to Parliament.