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hunting parson en · NOUN

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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. 1908, Sabine Baring-Gould, Devonshire Characters and Strange Events, Plymouth: Willian Brendon and Sons, Two Hunting Parsons:
2. (UK, obsolete) 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[.] 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 15, in Framley Parsonage, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:

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