Example sentences for: ecclesiastical

How can you use “ecclesiastical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Gracious and bustling Braga (22 km/13 miles northwest of Guimarães) is the 12th-century ecclesiastical center of Portugal, today famous for its Holy Week celebrations (see page 136).

  • The 16th-century church is a rare ecclesiastical building by Andrea Palladio, the master Renaissance architect from nearby Vicenza whose classic designs have so dominated aristocratic residential architecture throughout Europe and North America.

  • In hindsight, his ecclesiastical networking during and after Vatican II made him a logical candidate once it was clear no Italian cardinal could win election.

  • The guild takes many forms now, but it retains much of the Middle Ages, of the ecclesiastical Schoolmen, who gathered together in quasi-monastic “colleges,” behind walls that marked them off from the rest of the world (a phenomenon that in England is still called “town and gown”).

  • The private language of a man like that would be both simpler and more strange, more original, than Frazier's ecclesiastical English.


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