parishioner
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ə noun
one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
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| —n | |
| a member of a particular parish | |
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Word Origin & History
parishioner
late 15c., from parish. Outlasted its older doublet parochian (late 13c.), which was obsolete by 1700.
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Example sentences
It is home to the spirit of a deceased parishioner who has been known to attend services.
Their first encounter apparently set the pattern between pastor and parishioner whenever politics came up in church.
Privileged communications between a member of the clergy and a parishioner are exempt from this requirement.
It certainly seemed a rather summary method of repressing a refractory parishioner.
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