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Definition of Doorkeepers
1. doorkeeper [n] - See also: doorkeeper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doorkeepers
Literary usage of Doorkeepers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... 20 lectors, 4 cantors, and 7 doorkeepers. From these two examples we may infer
what the other smaller or larger churches must have required. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"24), mentions them among the minor clergy, placing them between the singers and
the doorkeepers, and, in another canon (c. 26), forbids any to exorcise ..."
3. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"... at the holy service, which they were wont to love; yet their bodies even in
the grave might, аз it were, be doorkeepers for ever in the house of God. ..."
4. Fares, Please!: And Other Essays on Practical Themes by Halford Edward Luccock (1916)
"Why not be doorkeepers? We think of the confession of David, "I had rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness ..."
5. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1907)
"On motion, Peter Gooding, James Mulloy, William Murphy and Nicholas Murphey, were
appointed doorkeepers. The Convention adjourned until to-morrow morning ..."
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