What does the word deacon mean?
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DEACONESS.
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: feminine
Usage examples for deacon
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Right across the busy market- place they passed, before the deacon halted beneath the castle walls. – A Book of Quaker Saints by Lucy Violet Hodgkin
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No one spoke, but some of us knowed it belonged to old Deacon Wells, an absent- minded old cuss, but the deacon had a family of nigh on to ten kids. – The Plunderer by Roy Norton
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Raphael, sickened with disgust, half- turned to follow him: but his better angel conquered, and he obeyed the summons of the deacon who ushered him in. – Hypatia or, New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley