Holy Joe

noun

Definition of Holy Joenext
slang
as in priest

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  1. priest
  2. clergyman
  3. preacher
  4. churchman
  5. divine
  6. deacon
  7. reverend
  8. ecclesiastic
Noun
  • The hot priest advises Eddie to earn forgiveness and stop punishing himself and then suggests that Eddie do something joyful after his penance.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Slate says that, in 1905, an issue of The Cambrian, a magazine for Welsh Americans, featured an anecdote involving a priest who, following a service, pulled a clerk aside to ask whether his sermon had been long enough.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of priest
Noun
  • The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of clergyman
Noun
  • Unwilling to let the hate go unchallenged, May and Saint decided to kiss in front of the hate preachers and have their friend, Alie Strehl (@potatecreates on Instagram), take a photo.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The phone rings, the subway busker hollers, the preacher sermonizes, the garbage truck backs up, the microwave announces that dinner is hot — and every one of those ordinary acoustic events, boosted by digital technology, clamors for our attention, mostly with little success.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of preacher
Noun
  • Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Definition of churchman
Noun
  • Paintings such as Dark Pasture Encounter: Conduit (2023) and Night Prey, or (The Prey of the Terrible shall be Delivered), 2024, evoke the ecstatic, almost erotic experience of the divine.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The resulting music is impressively precise and introspective, grappling with earthly concerns with poise, while also channeling the unexpected, iridescent revelations and comforts of the divine.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of divine
Noun
  • Earlier in the year LaBeouf was confirmed into the Catholic Church with intentions of becoming a deacon.
    Arimeta Diop, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Feulner came from a devout Roman Catholic family, while Weyrich himself was an ordained deacon of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of deacon
Noun
  • In his letter, the reverend encouraged parishioners to participate in services and activities at the Oak Park location of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish.
    Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The church’s current reverend, Matthew McHale, was serving at a Unitarian church in San Fernando during the pandemic.
    Autumn Alvarez, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of reverend
Noun
  • The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.
    Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
  • Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.
    Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Definition of ecclesiastic
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