Deacon

(noun.) a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders.

(noun.) a Protestant layman who assists the minister.

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• I must indeed, I said; for when just now I repeated the offer of serving him for a deacon, he expressed himself shocked at my want of decency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He was a deacon in the church which had been defiled by the occupation of Union troops, and by a Union chaplain filling the pulpit. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Stumpy and Deacon,' said the new-comer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• And it had a rapidly developing organization of deacons, priests, and bishops. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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