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The Idiot vocabulary
7 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words
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seminarist
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tags: [christianity]
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Definition:A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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There were little manuals in questions and answers, pamphlets of aggressive tone after the manner of Monsieur de Maistre, and certain novels in rose-coloured bindings and with a honied style, manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and gentry were mingled, had gone early that morning to the Three Hills.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
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