What is "predikant"

Usage examples of "predikant".

Who cares that the crones and the predikants, using separate sets of words, murmur jeremiads that too much optimism is bad for the soul, and attracts perhaps more attention from God than, strictly speaking, is desirable?

He who was named Jacob, after the great man in the Bible of whom your father, the Predikant, used to tell us, that one who was so slim and dressed himself up in a goatskin and gave his brother mealie porridge when he was hungry, after he had come in from shooting buck, Baas, and got his farm and cattle, Baas, and then went to Heaven up a ladder, Baas.

Then Sammy came to me and showed me what it was my duty to do, reminding me that your reverend father, the Predikant, had left you in my charge till one of us dies, whether you were well or ill and whether you got better or got worse--just like a white wife, Baas.

Because they worship the good while the others worship the devil, and as your father the Predikant used to say, Good is the cock which always wins the fight at the last, Baas.

If you meet your reverend father the Predikant before I do, tell him to make a nice place ready for me among the fires.

Then, Baas, suddenly I saw your reverend father, the Predikant, standing beside me and looking just as he used to look, only younger and stronger and very happy, and so of course knew at once that I was dead and in hell.

I understand now what your reverend father, the Predikant, meant when he spoke to me about Love last night.

Er preekte een nieuwe predikant met groote, zwarte, dwepende oogen en aristocratische, witte handen.

Toen verveelde haar de eentonigheid der zalvende woorden van den predikant en kon zij vooruit voorspellen, hoe hij zou hemelen met zijn oogen wanneer men zong, of welk gebaar zijne blanke hand zou maken, wanneer hij den zegen uitsprak.

Hans upon whom his Reverend Father, the Predikant, used to lean as upon a staff, that is, after he had made him into a good Christian.

In the church to which my aunt drove us on Sunday morning, children clean and pretty, we sat among the white neighbours from farms round about and from the dorp, to whom the predikant said we must do as we would be done by.