vestryperson
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We call it “a program of education for wardens, vestry and advisory board members.” It’s primarily to acquaint newly elected ones with their duties and responsibilities, but vestrypersons who have not been before can enroll too, if we have room for them."
- "The original Constitution and Canons of the Diocese, adopted by the Primary Convention in 1849, had no qualification of gender for voters in annual meetings, referred to the election of vestrymen, and gave no gender for council delegates. It can be presumed that no women would have thought of accepting election as vestryperson or council delegates at that period."
- "The letter was dated March 8, some six weeks after the vestry’s letter to the bishop, and the only vestrypersons at that time to sign were John Peterson and Ransom Wake."