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manse

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5 lettersPronunciation /mæns/Part of speech nounSorted aemnsStarts with MEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman)

Word origin

From Middle English mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from Old English āmǣnsumian (“to excommunicate”). More at amanse.

Used in a sentence

  • He has caught a glint of steel in the manse gateway, but it is only the minister's bicycle still chained to the trunk of a monkeypuzzle tree as a precaution against unchristian covetousness.

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