Meaning of hunting parson | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Anglican clergyman who regularly engages in fox hunting.
2. One who fulfils (an office) with insufficient dignity.
   UK, obsolete

Examples

“The hunting parson was, as said, not strong in the pulpit except in voice. But Jack Russell, of Swymbridge, was an exception.”

“You become a hunting parson, and ride with a happy mind among blasphemers and mocking devils—you, whose aspirations were so high, who have spoken so often and so well of the duties of a minister of Christ[.]”

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