family celebrant

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who conducts weddings, civil unions, naming ceremonies, and other celebrations…

    A person who conducts weddings, civil unions, naming ceremonies, and other celebrations of life events, but who is not a government or church official.

    • Some families are taking this further and are finding their own family spokespersons or family celebrants.
    • She is also a family celebrant and conducts baby naming ceremonies.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, celebrant.

    • Family celebrants believe that familes are too good for justice. While justice negotiates between competing self-interests, family members share a single interest, the good of the family and each of its members.
    • Cesare Borgia followed his father, the Pope, up the aisle; in their wake were Cesare's mother, Vanozza, his sister, Lucrezia, and his brothers, Juan and Jofre. Behind them were other family celebrants.

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