hunting parson

English

Noun

hunting parson (plural hunting parsons)

  1. An Anglican clergyman who regularly engages in fox hunting.
    • 1908, Sabine Baring-Gould, Devonshire Characters and Strange Events‎[1], Plymouth: Willian Brendon and Sons, Two Hunting Parsons:
      The hunting parson was, as said, not strong in the pulpit except in voice. But Jack Russell, of Swymbridge, was an exception.
  2. (UK, 19th century) One who fulfils (an office) with insufficient dignity.
    • 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 15, in Framley Parsonage, London: Smith, Elder & Co.:
      You become a hunting parson, and ride with a happy mind among blasphemers and mocking devils—you, whose aspirations were so high, who have spoken so often and so well of the duties of a minister of Christ[.]

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