Cleric
noun
A religious leader in a certain religion.
The cleric led the congregation in prayer.
Often appears as...
- christian cleric
- senior cleric
noun
A religious leader in a certain religion.
The cleric led the congregation in prayer.
Often appears as...
- christian cleric
- senior cleric
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Pro Tip 1/3Religious Context
Cleric implies roles in various religions, not confined to one specific faith.
The cleric spoke at the interfaith conference.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Address
Use as a respectful title when addressing religious figures.
Good morning, Cleric Johnson, may I ask you a question?
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Christian
Cleric is not exclusive to Christianity; it's used in Islam and other religions too.
The Shiite cleric delivered a sermon during Ramadan.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Context
Cleric implies roles in various religions, not confined to one specific faith.
The cleric spoke at the interfaith conference.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Address
Use as a respectful title when addressing religious figures.
Good morning, Cleric Johnson, may I ask you a question?
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Christian
Cleric is not exclusive to Christianity; it's used in Islam and other religions too.
The Shiite cleric delivered a sermon during Ramadan.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Context
Cleric implies roles in various religions, not confined to one specific faith.
The cleric spoke at the interfaith conference.
Pro Tip 2/3Respectful Address
Use as a respectful title when addressing religious figures.
Good morning, Cleric Johnson, may I ask you a question?
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Christian
Cleric is not exclusive to Christianity; it's used in Islam and other religions too.
The Shiite cleric delivered a sermon during Ramadan.
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What it's like to be a...
And I was really surprised and asked him, had she been in contact with a radical religious leader? And he said the problem was quite the opposite, that every cleric that she had talked to had shut her down and said that her rage, her sense of injustice in the world, was just going to get her in trouble.
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Is there any truth to...
Despite this uncertainty, references to Arthur caught the attention of an aspiring historian hundreds of years later. In 1130, Geoffrey of Monmouth was a lowly cleric with grand ambitions. Using Celtic and Latin sources, he spent years creating a lengthy chronicle
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I am here to confuse you...
there and this summer many of us showed up to confuse people by going and standing outside the Islamic community center near Ground Zero that you know is park51 one night one afternoon rather a very conservative right-wing cleric or pastor called
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What it's like to be a...
And I was really surprised and asked him, had she been in contact with a radical religious leader? And he said the problem was quite the opposite, that every cleric that she had talked to had shut her down and said that her rage, her sense of injustice in the world, was just going to get her in trouble.
Video examples
Is there any truth to...
Despite this uncertainty, references to Arthur caught the attention of an aspiring historian hundreds of years later. In 1130, Geoffrey of Monmouth was a lowly cleric with grand ambitions. Using Celtic and Latin sources, he spent years creating a lengthy chronicle
Video examples
I am here to confuse you...
there and this summer many of us showed up to confuse people by going and standing outside the Islamic community center near Ground Zero that you know is park51 one night one afternoon rather a very conservative right-wing cleric or pastor called
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Quote examples
Peter Bergen
American Journalist
What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric, so he could present himself as a leading religious figure. Second, because al-Awlaki had spent much of his adult life in the States, he communicated with his followers in colloquial, accessible American English.
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Benazir Bhutto
Pakistani Leader
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.
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Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are also told by some clerics that they mustn't wear seatbelts for fear of showing the outlines of their bodies.
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Rowan Atkinson
English Comedian
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
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Mike Pompeo
American Politician
By rejecting the Iranian nuclear deal, Congress can help achieve the original goal of isolating the bad actors in Iran - the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, its Quds Force commander Quassem Soleimani, and the radical clerics.
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Terry Eagleton
English Critic
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
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Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi Arabian Author
Many Saudi clerics believe that letting women drive means they will be free to leave the house whenever they like - something that will have a liberalizing and, therefore, unwanted effect on society.
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Chris Murphy
American Politician
The political alliance between the House of Saud and the conservative Wahhabi clerics is as old as the nation, and the alliance has resulted in billions funneled to and through the Wahhabi movement.
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Hassan Nasrallah
Lebanese Revolutionary
When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap it around my head and say to them that 'I'm a cleric, you need to pray behind me.
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Raj Thackeray
Indian Politician
Muslim clerics in India go to other countries, nobody knows what do they do, even the police can't go there.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric, so he could present himself as a leading religious figure. Second, because al-Awlaki had spent much of his adult life in the States, he communicated with his followers in colloquial, accessible American English.
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Benazir Bhutto
Pakistani Leader
I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.
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Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are also told by some clerics that they mustn't wear seatbelts for fear of showing the outlines of their bodies.
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Rowan Atkinson
English Comedian
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
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Mike Pompeo
American Politician
By rejecting the Iranian nuclear deal, Congress can help achieve the original goal of isolating the bad actors in Iran - the Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, its Quds Force commander Quassem Soleimani, and the radical clerics.
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Terry Eagleton
English Critic
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.
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Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi Arabian Author
Many Saudi clerics believe that letting women drive means they will be free to leave the house whenever they like - something that will have a liberalizing and, therefore, unwanted effect on society.
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Chris Murphy
American Politician
The political alliance between the House of Saud and the conservative Wahhabi clerics is as old as the nation, and the alliance has resulted in billions funneled to and through the Wahhabi movement.
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Hassan Nasrallah
Lebanese Revolutionary
When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother had a scarf. It was black, but a long one. I used to wrap it around my head and say to them that 'I'm a cleric, you need to pray behind me.
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Raj Thackeray
Indian Politician
Muslim clerics in India go to other countries, nobody knows what do they do, even the police can't go there.
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