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(Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
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monsignor
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Monsignor is a 1982 American Catholic drama film directed by Frank Perry about a Roman Catholic priest 's rise through the ranks of the Vatican , during and after World War II . Along the way, he involves the Vatican in the black marketeering operations ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
title conferred on some prelates, 1640s, from Italian monsignore "my lord," formed on model of French monseigneur (see monseigneur ) from equivalent elements in Italian.
Usage examples of monsignor.
It was Monsignor Marbot who went in procession to the battlefield of the Marne with crucifix and banner and white-robed acolytes, and in an allocution of singular beauty consecrated those stricken fields with the last rites of the Church.
The curate of SaintSamuel, the Abbe Josello, presented me to Monsignor Correre, Patriarch of Venice, who gave me the tonsure, and who, four months afterwards, by special favour, admitted me to the four minor orders.
He was preceded and followed by cardinals, bishops, arch-bishops, monsignori, abbots, the apostolic prothonotaries, generals of the religious orders, officers of the state, of the army, of his household, and the Guardia Nobile.
Sandanato had been formal, proper, undemonstrative, such a contrast to the vibrant cardinal who had been standing beside the black limo, face to the sunshine, already giving Higgins an earful, when the monsignor had brought her out to the street.
Father Quixote felt a wild temptation to use the same unrepeatable phrase about his title of monsignor, but he resisted it.
Gladstone, Browning, Sir John Simeon, Monsignor Patterson, Woolner, and Reginald Palgrave.
And this morning they lowered him into darkness, and wonderful words were read over him by Rabbi Ashkenazi, Monsignor McCalla, Dr.
Monsignor, every Rabbi, every Herr Geheimrat, every Judge, every Lord, every Governor, he was so highly exalted that he was not merely a man, but a title.
Though he was steadfastly vague about his past, the Monsignor had heard all the rumors: that his family was once of the high-living English gentry but fell on hard times in the postwar Laborite era.
Castelletti and Scala, who had closed the investigations in Bellagio with the interrogation of Monsignor Jean-Bernard Dalbouse, French-born parish priest of the Church of Santa Chiara, and his staff, clerical and laypeople alike.
Producing a phone book in a matter of seconds, he had Monsignor Mansoni on the line before Stephanie and Daniel had decided who should talk with him.
He told the American what had transpired and that he and Monsignor Mansoni were waiting for him in his office.
Or maybe Monsignor Mansoni communicated that the sample had been delivered.
The good news is that by working quickly with Monsignor Mansoni, I have managed to arrange that the sample will be returned forthwith.
Next, he tried to call Monsignor Mansoni, but the prelate had left his residence a half hour earlier on church business at the airport.