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abbe
Part of speech: NounA father; a title of courtesy or honour given to persons in many Catholic countries who have given themselves to the study of divinity.
Usage examples "abbe":- Excellent masters were given to me to continue my studies, and M. Baffo chose the Abbe Schiavo to teach me a pure Italian style, especially poetry, for which I had a decided talent. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
- They do not know of my engagement to Gustave; and seeing him in the uniform of a National Guard, the Abbe courteously addressed to him some questions as to the possibility of checking the terrible increase of the vice of intoxication, so alien till of late to the habits of the Parisians, and becoming fatal to discipline and bodily endurance,- could the number of the cantines on the ramparts be more limited? - "The Parisians, Book 11.", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
- Flavia has read it- it is by the Abbe Prevost. - "Sant' Ilario", F. Marion Crawford.