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deaconry

[ dee-kuhn-ree ]

noun

plural deaconries.
  1. the office of a deacon.
  2. deacons collectively.


deaconry

/ ˈ»å¾±Ë°ìÉ™²Ô°ùɪ /

noun

  1. the office or status of a deacon
  2. deacons collectively
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Origin of deaconry1

First recorded in 1425–75, deaconry is from the late Middle English word dekenry. See deacon, -ry
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Jesus did not make a sacrament either of marriage or of deaconry; and, with us, marriage and deaconry are sacraments.

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He enters its lower ranks, the deaconry, for example, at puberty.

But sober second thought, that ought always and specially to attach itself to the deaconry, was apparently at a premium in our town.

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As the townsmen became the electors of the minister, and when the new latitude in membership had been accepted by the churches, there soon appeared a growing slackness of discipline and also an increase of authority in the hands of the ministers and their subordinate deaconry.

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But in a little time the Trepan called himself John Poulter, adding withal that Judge Morton used to call him John for the King, and that the Archbishop of Canterbury had given him a deaconry. 

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