Holy Joe

noun

Definition of Holy Joenext
slang
as in priest

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Holy Joe
  1. priest
  2. clergyman
  3. preacher
  4. churchman
  5. divine
  6. deacon
  7. reverend
  8. ecclesiastic
Noun
  • The priest who okay’d the filming of a controversial Sabrina Carpenter music video at his Williamsburg, Brooklyn church has been relieved of his duties.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Lisa called her parents, and asked her dad to get their parish priest.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of priest
Noun
  • The first hint of photosynthesis came from experiments by English clergyman and scientist Joseph Priestly.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Among the clergymen cited in the lawsuits that were settled Wednesday, Father Michael Baker is one of the priests with the most victims.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of clergyman
Noun
  • Born in Round Rock, Talarico is currently training to become a preacher.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Raised by a preacher and a professional bodybuilder father, Pope draws on his upbringing to confront internalized homophobia and navigate his identity.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of preacher
Noun
  • Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
  • If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
Definition of churchman
Noun
  • This ultimately ought to be in acting justly on all fronts, extending mercy on behalf of all of God's people and striving daily to conduct themselves according to the will of the divine.
    Donald Brewington, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Paintings such as Dark Pasture Encounter: Conduit (2023) and Night Prey, or (The Prey of the Terrible shall be Delivered), 2024, evoke the ecstatic, almost erotic experience of the divine.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of divine
Noun
  • Earlier in the year LaBeouf was confirmed into the Catholic Church with intentions of becoming a deacon.
    Arimeta Diop, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Feulner came from a devout Roman Catholic family, while Weyrich himself was an ordained deacon of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of deacon
Noun
  • There, the reverend and Sister Deborah initially work in harmony, attracting devoted new converts.
    Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In his letter, the reverend encouraged parishioners to participate in services and activities at the Oak Park location of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish.
    Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of reverend
Noun
  • The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.
    Victor Pérez-Díaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
  • Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.
    Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
Definition of ecclesiastic
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