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
  • After a violent campaign in which Buddhists killed a number of priests and destroyed churches, in 1909, locals built the church that Galipeau visited in Cizhong.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But over the summer of 2022, churches in the city started being shut down and priests detained.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of priest
Noun
  • In 1598, friend and fellow clergyman Francesco Maria del Monte hosted a struggling artist at his family palazzo—a one Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Now, Lubin works in marketing for a toy company and serves on the board of BOLD Justice, an advocacy group made up of local clergymen based in Broward.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
Definition of clergyman
Noun
  • The abolitionist, women’s rights advocate and preacher was born into slavery in New York, sold four times, then escaped in 1826.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Bonhoeffer tells the story of a preacher at the center of a plot to assassinate Hitler.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Nov. 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
  • This ultimately ought to be in acting justly on all fronts, extending mercy on behalf of all of God's people and striving daily to conduct themselves according to the will of the divine.
    Donald Brewington, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024
  • 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
Definition of divine
Noun
  • Jean-Charles de Castelbajac designed the liturgical vestments worn by bishops, priests and deacons to be used during mass, which made their public debut at the celebration.
    Rhonda Richford, WWD, 7 Dec. 2024
  • After retiring from Hudson's in 2009, but still serving as mayor, Roberts became an Episcopal deacon in 2010.
    M.L. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of deacon
Noun
  • And the reverend’s response reveals a contradiction that many Black Christian women have faced: They are encouraged to seek spiritual freedom but are still expected to remain subservient.
    Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The Clergy Council’s website has been scrubbed of several references to the reverend’s position as president there.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 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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