Clergy Synonyms and Antonyms

klûrjē
In Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ministry
  2. priesthood
  3. clergyman
  4. cleric
  5. archdeacon
  6. canon
  7. canonry
  8. cardinalate
  9. chancellor
  10. prelacy
  11. chaplain
  12. clergymen
  13. clerisy
  14. cloth
  15. curate
  16. deacon
  17. deaconry
  18. dean
  19. ecclesiastic
  20. ecclesiasticism
  21. ecclesiastics
  22. hierophant
  23. incumbent
  24. locum
  25. locum-tenens
  26. man-of-the-cloth
  27. metropolitan
  28. ministers
  29. pastorate
  30. ordinary
  31. padre
  32. prebendary
  33. precentor
  34. prelate
  35. primate
  36. prior
  37. proctor
  38. provost
  39. pulpitarian
  40. rabbinate
  41. rural dean
  42. spiritualities
  43. suffragan
  44. the cloth
Antonyms:
  1. laity
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. collate
  2. frock
  3. ordain
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. clerical
  2. ecclesiastical
  3. incumbent
  4. ministerial
  5. prelatical
  6. pulpitarian
  7. sacerdotal

Words Related to Clergy

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Clergy Sentence Examples

  • The clergy left the matter to the tsar's own decision.

  • Having refused to accept the civil constitution of the clergy, Dillon had to leave Narbonne in 1790, then to emigrate to Coblenz in 1791.

  • It became clear that neither the influence of the regular clergy, of which the Society of Jesus is the most powerful embodiment, nor that of foreign clerical parties, which largely control the Peters Pence fund, would ever permit renunciation of the papal claim to temporal power.

  • In the same way earls and barons must only be fined by their peers, and a similar privilege is extended to the clergy, who, moreover, were not to be fined in accordance with the value of their benefices, but only of their other property.

  • Several conventions guarantee the free communication of the bishops, clergy and laity with the Holy See; and this admits of the publication and execution of apostolic letters in matters spiritual.

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