What is another word for parishioners?

Pronunciation: [pˈaɹɪʃənəz] (IPA)

Parishioners are people who regularly attend church services and are members of a particular congregation. Synonyms for this word include worshippers, attendees, members, faithful, congregants, devotees, followers, and believers. All of these words describe individuals who are committed to their faith and actively participate in their religious community. Parishioners often contribute financially to their church, but they also offer their time and talents to support various activities and programs. No matter what word is used to describe them, parishioners are an essential part of any church community and play a vital role in ensuring that the faith continues to thrive.

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What are the opposite words for parishioners?

The word parishioners refers to a group of people who belong to a particular religious denomination and attend worship services together. Antonyms for this word would include those who do not belong to any religious group or those who practice a different faith. People who do not attend worship services or do not identify with any particular religion would also be considered antonyms. In a more specific context, those who actively oppose or criticize the beliefs and practices of the parishioners could also be considered antonyms. Overall, antonyms for parishioners would include those who do not share the same beliefs or practices as the group.

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Usage examples for Parishioners

His father's parishioners had followed him through each of the stages of his successful young life, and they all liked him; partly because the kind of success Bayworth Kaye had achieved is not the kind which arouses dislike or envy, and even more because he was an open-handed and good-natured young gentleman, very unlike-so the villagers would have told you-either his gentle, unpractical father or his hard mother.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The parishioners have always taken a deep interest in this old custom.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
But by this time his family was large; he was in debt; the fees to be paid before taking up the living ate farther into his credit; a larger house had to be maintained, with three acres of garden and farm-buildings; and his new parishioners hated his politics and made life as miserable for him as they could.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Famous quotes with Parishioners

  • Trochu's book makes me shudder. Positively frightening - and the saint too. The first time I read it I was quite horrified...Actually he is a second Simeon Stylites - and how hard and stern he is - and not only against himself: he would excommunicate his parishioners if they even once went dancing or drinking - like the most rigorous Puritan..For him sin involved personal, direct single combat with Satan...But there's no glove to Vianney's peasant fist. He's really gruesome.
    Ida Friederike Görres
  • ...he became one with his Chinese parishioners, announcing a trade as honest as that of the dentist, the seller of rice-wine, the brothel-keeper, the purveyor of quack rejuvenators and aphrodisiacs, or the vendor of shark’s-fin strips.
    Anthony Burgess
  • In any case, rather like priests who have forgotten the meaning of the prayers they chant, we shall go on for quite a long time talking of books and writing books, pretending all the while not to notice that the church is empty and the parishioners have gone elsewhere to attend other gods, perhaps in silence or with new words.
    Gore Vidal
  • Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.
    E. L. Doctorow
  • The truth was that Emerson did not often refer to Scripture (after he announced the text, which was invariably from the Bible) because the Bible was no longer for him an object of study; it was an example for him for emulation. He was interested in his own primary, personal religious experience and that of his parishioners, not in repeating and deferring to the reported religious experiences of long departed historical personages. When he studied, say, the Book of Proverbs, he no longer thought of himself as a commentator, but as the potential author of a similar book.
    Robert D. Richardson

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