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单词 bush brother
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Definition of bush brother in English:

bush brother

noun
Australian
  • A travelling Anglican missionary providing ministry to remote areas.

    many of the bush brothers became bishops
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has been a Bush Brother parish.
    • They were married in 1931 by one of the Bush Brothers.
    • There's a line of well-brushed choirboys entering a cathedral in procession and a Bush Brother conducting Evensong from the Book of Common Prayer.
    • He had trained as a Bush Brother, being influenced by socialist ideals of the founder of the Brotherhood.
    • We were visited by Mr Bramley, a Bush Brother, who travelled through the outback serving the communities with an occasional dose of spirituality.
    • The English clergy no longer felt the duty to travel to Australia to serve the church as bush brothers.
    • He heard the bishop preach, and he started talking to him and he ended up being a Bush Brother.
 
 
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