Definition of "parsons" [parsons]

• Plural form of parson. (noun)

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• ""pimp," and thought a crushing argument lay in the word; he called parsons scoundrels, and bade his boys be regular at church."
• "He is brave and generous, and knows the world; and then his contempt of the parsons is a certain sign that he is one of us."
• "When I saw these birds for the first time, as a deck boy, I was told they were called parsons, because they were the souls of ungodly clergymen, who had to wait down here till doomsday without rest."