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Word entry · 6 letters

sexton

Best crossword clue

"Church caretaker"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɛk.stən/Part of speech nounSorted enostxStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects

Word origin

From Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus, based on Latin sacer (“sacred”). Doublet of sacristan.

Used in a sentence

  • The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes, for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were.
  • on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell

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