| 单词 | worker priest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworker priest worker priest n. [after French prêtre-ouvrier (see priest-worker n. at priest n. Compounds 6)] (originally) a Roman Catholic priest in post-Second World War France who earned his living by doing manual or industrial work (now historical); (more widely) any priest engaged, typically part-time, in secular work. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > worker-priest worker priest1949 1949 Commonweal 29 July 385/2 We must bow our heads in deep humility before the heroism of the worker priest. 1959 Manch. Guardian 4 Aug. 3/3 Five worker-priests..believed to be the only ones in the Church of England..do manual work, live on their factory earnings and receive no ecclesiastical stipends. 1998 M. Powell God Off-Broadway iv. 91 The Worker Priests movement..began in France in 1943 in a desperate effort to win back the workers to the Church and to combat the strong influence of communism in the factories. 2001 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 22 Jan. Dawson..serves a remote Scottish community as a policeman and an Episcopal worker priest. < as lemmas |
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