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hunting parson

noun

Definitions

  1. An Anglican clergyman who regularly engages in fox hunting.

    • The hunting parson was, as said, not strong in the pulpit except in voice. But Jack Russell, of Swymbridge, was an exception.

  2. One who fulfils (an office) with insufficient dignity.

    • You become a hunting parson, and ride with a happy mind among blasphemers and mocking devils—you, whose aspirations were so high, who have spoken so often and so well of the duties of a minister of Christ[.]

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