sexton
IPA: sˈɛkstʌn
noun
- A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
- A sexton beetle.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
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Examples of "sexton" in Sentences
- Betty stood godmother for him, and the parish clerk and the sexton were his godfathers.
- The term sexton by definition is a person who looks after a church and digs graves, which failed to accurately describe the job duties.
- Apart from sectarian issues, a sexton is the most mettlesome man that grows, and not at all to be subdued to the ignoble uses of a hoe.
- Sigrist, or sexton, is a job shared by a Manage who lives atop Sigrist Poke (the highest elevation on Skene) on the biggest island, Riesig.
- Renzo went and called the sexton, who, after confirming every fact, adding fresh particulars, and dissipating every doubt, again went on his way.
- But as the sexton was a secret disciple of the opposition they had him hid away near the church, and at a given signal he was to appear with the keys.
- The sexton was a tall thin man, emaciated by years and by privations; his body was bent habitually by his occupation of grave-digging, and his eye naturally inclined downward to the scene of his labours.
- The abode of the sexton was a solitary cottage adjacent to the ruined wall of the cemetery, but so low that, with its thatch, which nearly reached the ground, covered with a thick crop of grass, fog, and house-leeks, it resembled an overgrown grave.
- The sexton was a meek, acquiescing little man, of a bowing, lowly habit: yet he had a pleasant twinkling in his eye, and, if encouraged, would now and then hazard a small pleasantry; such as a man of his low estate might venture to make in the company of high churchwardens, and other mighty men of the earth.
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