Definition of abbé in English:
abbé
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(in France) an abbot or other cleric.
‘the abbé was his confessor’- ‘Abbé Pierre’
- ‘In France their leader was the abbé Jules Lemire, who was elected to parliament from a Flemish constituency in 1893.’
- ‘He attended the Jesuit College in Amiens, studying under the abbé Jacques Delille who was a poet and classicist.’
- ‘It is possible to detect the influence of Jansenism through the presence of two leading draftsmen of the Civil Constitution, abbés Grégoire and Camus.’
- ‘Educated by a Jansenist-leaning abbé, Tocqueville did not lose his faith lightly.’
- ‘In his revolutionary pamphlet of 1788, the abbé Sieyès lamented the great respect granted this parasitic existence.’
- ‘Chapter two follows with an analysis of the economic resources of ‘Dalmatia’ through the work of the abbé Alberto Fortis.’
- ‘The sly abbé from Périgord takes Candide to the theatre.’
- ‘The late abbé Galiani was absolutely right to compare our Council of Finance to Christmas Eve, when everyone eats too much and finishes up with violent indigestion.’
- ‘Jean Picard, who also was an abbé, held Mouton in high esteem and always visited him when in Lyons.’
- ‘The French abbé de Saint Pierre went even further, noting that the power of states simply fluctuated too much for such an idea to be feasible.’
- ‘We also would like to thank l' abbé René Chartier, Soeur Rioux and Soeur Forest for all their support and prayers.’
Pronunciation
Origin
Mid 16th century French, from ecclesiastical Latin abbas, abbat- (see abbot).
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