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Definition of Parsonish
1. a. Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.
Definition of Parsonish
1. Adjective. (colloquial derogatory) Like, or befitting, a parson. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parsonish
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parsonish
Literary usage of Parsonish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger (1904)
"His book I like; it is only too stuffed with Scripture, too parsonish. The best
thing in it is the boy's own story. When I say it is too full of Scripture, ..."
2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1919)
"... and him drawn, atom-like, with his little round beard and swallow-tail coat
and parsonish white cravat, to wherever she ensconced herself. ..."
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