WordMageSaints and Sinners
Monks, friars, prelates, and other figures of faith gather in expressions both reverent and irreverent.
- a host of angelsSource: Lipton 1977
- a quire of angelsSource: Lipton 1977
- a charge of curatesSource: Lipton 1977
- a skulk of friarsSource: Lipton 1977
- a profit of gurusSource: Lipton 1977
- an observance of hermitsSource: Lipton 1977
- an abominable sight of monksSource: Lipton 1977
- a flap of nunsSource: Lipton 1977
- a superfluity of nunsSource: Lipton 1977; Book of St. Albans
- a lying of pardonersSource: Lipton 1977
- A converting of preachersSource: Book of St. Albans; Lipton 1977
- a pontificality of prelatesSource: Lipton 1977
- a discretion of priestsSource: Lipton 1977
- a mass of priestsSource: Lipton 1977
- an untruth of summonersSource: Lipton 1977; Book of St. Albans
- A prudence of vicarsSource: Book of St. Albans; Lipton 1977
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These expressions come from the collection’s records labelled Lipton 1977 and Book of St. Albans. They include historical and fanciful group names. Source labels are preserved; individual usage histories have not been assessed. Favorites are saved only in this browser.
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