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PARSONAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("parsonage" is a kind of...):
residence (the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parsonage"):
glebe house (a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice))
Context examples:
At the further end of the village, and tolerably disengaged from the rest of it, stood the parsonage, a new-built substantial stone house, with its semicircular sweep and green gates; and, as they drove up to the door, Henry, with the friends of his solitude, a large Newfoundland puppy and two or three terriers, was ready to receive and make much of them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In truth I must acknowledge that, with all the disadvantages of this humble parsonage, I should not think anyone abiding in it an object of compassion, while they are sharers of our intimacy at Rosings.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
An old woman opened: I asked was this the parsonage?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When she had spoken it, she recollected herself, and wished it unsaid; but there was no need of confusion; for her brother saw her only as the supposed inmate of Mansfield parsonage, and replied but to invite her in the kindest manner to his own house, and to claim the best right in her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Indeed, replied Elinor, I believe that you will find him, on farther acquaintance, all that you have heard him to be, and as you will be such very near neighbours (for I understand the parsonage is almost close to the mansion-house,) it is particularly important that he SHOULD be all this.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
We are not comparing it with Fullerton and Northanger—we are considering it as a mere parsonage, small and confined, we allow, but decent, perhaps, and habitable; and altogether not inferior to the generality; or, in other words, I believe there are few country parsonages in England half so good.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Yes; and when they go, I shall return to the parsonage at Morton: Hannah will accompany me; and this old house will be shut up.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Of Edward, or at least of some of his concerns, she now received intelligence from Colonel Brandon, who had been into Dorsetshire lately; and who, treating her at once as the disinterested friend of Mr. Ferrars, and the kind confidante of himself, talked to her a great deal of the parsonage at Delaford, described its deficiencies, and told her what he meant to do himself towards removing them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But, whatever might be the distress of Catherine's mind, as she thus advanced towards the parsonage, and whatever the humiliation of her biographer in relating it, she was preparing enjoyment of no everyday nature for those to whom she went; first, in the appearance of her carriage—and secondly, in herself.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In a week, Mr. Rivers and Hannah repaired to the parsonage: and so the old grange was abandoned.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
