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• Parsons bent down to pick the stinky baby brained adult diaper girl up.2023 December 12, @ExtraAbdl, Twitter. From the entry changie
• Parsons replied, with his dry sense of humor: “I do not overeat, and I do not overhate.2016, Paul DeForest Hicks, John E. Parsons: An Eminent New Yorker in The Gilded Age, →ISBN. From the entry overhate
• “You really are married by a priest or parson, not just hocussing me?”1936, Miles Franklin, chapter 20, in All That Swagger. From the entry hocus
• The parson, all unaware, dully pursued his calling, perched above the exquisite derision of their glances.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 127. From the entry all
• PARSON enters from L., goes to door of clubhouse and knocks.1921, Jeff Branen, The African Golf Club: A Blackface Farce, page 12. From the entry snoopingly
• Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson.1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Gardners’ Call”, in Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 295. From the entry unfledged
• Dan stood over the fallen parson, and started to count him out.1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 25. From the entry count out
• The hunting parson was, as said, not strong in the pulpit except in voice.1908, Sabine Baring-Gould, Devonshire Characters and Strange Events, Plymouth: Willian Brendon and Sons, Two Hunting Parsons. From the entry hunting parson
• 'Don't trouble' said the parson distantly, unmoved by the bepatched swagsman's splendid offer.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry bepatched
• What is a simple master-mariner at best alongsides a parson with a persuasive voice?.1907, Frank Frankfort Moore, chapter XXIV, in The Love that Prevailed, New York: Empire Book Company, page 299. From the entry alongsides
• “Parson Budd be a tremendous Church-of-Englander, so I heard squire say.1903, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, page 40, column 2. From the entry chapeler
• Parsons might have bought at a whopping seventy-five percent off.2006, Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story, page 45. From the entry abandonedness
• Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth.1948, George Orwell, 1984, page 21. From the entry enthusiasms
• Parson Tyll was a curate of one parish across the Strood and of the two on the island.1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Chapter 11. From the entry read oneself in
• Somehow, though, as the parson come 'long- side the post-office, most anybody wouldn't 'a' liked the way thinks looked.1907, Eleanor Gates, Cupid, the Cow-Punch, page 48. From the entry explodey
• And the parson, true to the shepherding instincts, soon began to extend his vigilance to every member of his domestic fold.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry untieable
• Somehow, though, as the parson come 'long-side the post-office, most anybody wouldn't 'a' liked the way thinks looked.1907, Eleanor Gates, Cupid, the Cow-Punch, page 48. From the entry post-office
• Parson seemed to have an attack of symbolophobia.1901, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 31, page 231. From the entry symbolophobia
• Parsons speaks the words of Titania, but her winged, incandescent fairyness is evoked by a team of fluttering, humming others standing behind her.2015 September 20, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers”, in New York Times. From the entry fairyness
• Parsons found the biggest issue to be that “there was no space that said that it was welcoming specifically to non-cisgender people.2013 January 13, Rebecca Borison, “Penn Non-Cis fights underrepresentation on campus”, in The Daily Pennsylvanian, University of…. From the entry non-cisgender
• Parsons, the principal’s wife, would play the graduation march while the lower-grade graduates paraded down the aisles and took their seats below the platform.1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, page 166. From the entry parade
• Parsons, Winston's fellow-tenant at Victory Mansions, was in fact threading his way across the room--a tubby, middle-sized man with fair hair and a froglike face.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5. From the entry froglike
• Alas, sometimes for a lily-handed parson!1930, Andover Newton Bulletin. From the entry lily-handed
• It was beyond the local parson to remain passive while this spiritual cuckoo pulled to pieces this little nest of his victim's weary upbuilding.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry upbuilding
• The parson explained that the dissenters were insufficiently grounded in religious learning, inappropriately eager to administer the sacraments without his help or sanction, and incautiously emotional in their worship.2008, Jewel L. Spangler, “Chapter 2”, in Virginians Reborn: Anglican monopoly, Evangelical dissent, and the rise of the Baptists in the…. From the entry incautiously
• Conjurors and parsons were brought in, who for a time bound the troublesome ghost to emptying Dozmary Pool on Bodmin with a "croggan" or limpet shell.2005, Jennifer Westwood, Jacqueline Simpson, The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of…. From the entry croggan
• From servants to creditors (and some actors are double-cast), from alehouse keeper to parson, all create genuine individuals on stage, and make fresh theater of a vintage work.1984 October 20, Clara Hieronymus, “Stylish Discipline Boosts Elizabethan ‘Old Debts’”, in The Tennessean, volume 79, number 197…. From the entry alehouse keeper
• I would have disguised myself as a sailor, a dissolute parson or a gandermooner, and lurked in the places where such people congregate, waiting to be approached.1961, Robertson Davies, The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose, page 190. From the entry gandermooner
• I felt no conviction of a burning sincerity, of that fire in the belly which made some of the wilder nonconformist parsons of my youth appear almost incandescent.1955 June 9, J. B. Priestley, “Billy Graham's Nothing New—In Fact, Perhaps, Below Par”, in Vancouver Sun, Canada, retrieved 20 Jun 2011. From the entry fire in the belly
• I don’t like parsons; especially the country moustachy ones, and their poor dowdy wives, with coats and skirts and then a hardbrimmed hat with a feather on the top.1904, Danby Earl, Through Many Voices, page 72. From the entry moustachy
• They formed the boundary lines or marks between adjoining parishes, and when the bounds were beaten the parson was wont to deliver his homily beneath the shady boughs.1900, George Morley, “Gospel Oaks”, in Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country: The Language; the Superstitions; the Customs…. From the entry greenwood
• Parsons takes the gift and sings Melissa a responsive song, wherein her “unmov’d” song turns through its “unmov’d” hearer to a kind of metasong about the freedom that art offers.1995, Elaine Scarry, Fins-de-siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 118. From the entry metasong

Meaning of parson

1. noun An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law.
2. noun A Protestant minister.
3. noun A Roman Catholic priest of an independent parish church.

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How do you use parson in a sentence?

Parson is used as a noun. For example: “Parsons bent down to pick the stinky baby brained adult diaper girl up.”

What is a short sentence with parson?

“Alas, sometimes for a lily-handed parson!”

What does parson mean?

Parson means an Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law.