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a cleric
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a member of the clergy
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a penchant for
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a strong and continue inclination; a liking for
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Anticlericalism
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opposed to clericalism or to the interference or influence of the clergy in secular affairs
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brazen
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marked by contemptuous boldness
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Cognizant
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knowledgeable of something especially through personal experience; mindful
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Communion (the Eucharist)
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a Christian sacrament in which consecrated bread and wine are consumed as memorials of Christ's death or as symbols for the realization of a spiritual union between Christ and communicant or as the body and blood of Christ
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Depravity
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the quality or state of being depraved, or marked by corruption or evil, especially perverted
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excommunication
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an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership
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haughty
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blatantly and disdainfully proud
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an indulgence
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the remission of part or all of the temporal and especially purgatorial punishment that according to Roman Catholicism is due for sins whose eternal punishment has been remitted and whose guilt has been pardoned (as through the sacrament of reconciliation)
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Insolent
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insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct; exhibiting boldness or effrontery
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Interlocutor
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one who takes part in dialogue or conversation
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Penance
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an act of self-abasement, mortification, or devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin
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Pluralism
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the holding of two or more offices or positions (as benefices) at the same time
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Pregeny
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descendants, children, offspring
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Purgatory
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an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification; specifically : a place or state of punishment wherein according to Roman Catholic doctrine the souls of those who die in God's grace may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for heaven
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sacrament
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a Christian rite (as baptism or the Eucharist) that is believed to have been ordained by Christ and that is held to be a means of divine grace or to be a sign or symbol of a spiritual reality
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secularism
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indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations in such things as the affairs of state
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sobriety
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the quality or state of being sober
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to absolve
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to set free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt; to remit (a sin) by absolution
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to annul
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to declare or make legally invalid or void
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to err
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to make a mistake; to violate an accepted standard of conduct
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to justify
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to judge, regard, or treat as righteous and worthy of salvation
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to lament
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to express sorrow, mourning, or regret for often demonstratively; to mourn
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to recant
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to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly
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to usurp
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to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right
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to vitiate
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to make faulty or defective; to debase in moral or aesthetic status
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transubstantiation
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the miraculous change by which according to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox dogma the eucharistic elements at their consecration become the body and blood of Christ while keeping only the appearances of bread and wine
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