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This accepting ideology is attractive to parishioners in its big, coastal cities with more liberal social views and values.—Shirley Halperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2025 But with Matty’s help — in particular her coaxing Grant’s priest into praising his parishioner’s devout Catholicism — the team is able to get an annulment, proving Grant committed fraud by lying about his religious faith to his atheist wife.—Noel Murray, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025 Hundreds of school bus drivers, painters, retirees and parishioners from the nearby Catholic church come into Abby’s Bakery each day.—Valerie Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2025 On that Saturday, hundreds filed past — a priest and his parishioners from the Azores islands, a nun from Colombia and her Passionist sisters, a family with two teens from near Venice.—Time, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parishioner
Word History
Etymology
Middle English parisshoner, probably modification of Anglo-French parochien, from paroche
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