Word: reverende
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That blithely calls me Reverend...
Relax and look up the word reverend in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). You and your Protestant clergymen are hopelessly behind the times. The word reverend has graduated to the category of a noun, "rev'er-end-n-s: a member of the clergy: minister, priest, pastor . . . (saw the Reverend walking down the road)." Call me Reverend...
...many clergymen have given up trying to find a suitable substitute, and return a weary smile when hailed as "reverend"-or "rev" or "reverent" or even "revenue." Perhaps out of desperation, clergymen are the only Americans who customarily affect the title "doctor" after receiving an honorary degree. Admits Paul F. Bobb (D.D., hon.), associate pastor of Albuquerque's First Presbyterian Church: "I prefer 'mister' but let people use 'doctor' because it doesn't jar me as much as 'reverend...
PLEASE stop calling me Reverend...
...resolution went on to contend that it is ''blasphemous and idolatrous" to apply the word reverend to a clergyman even when it is used grammatically, as in the common form of indirect address or written reference: "The Reverend John Smith." Most churchmen would disagree...