'deacon' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an individual who serves in a leadership role in a church. For example, "The deacon performed the sermon in church today."
Third-year male journalism students were ordered to the cotton fields by the rector and faculty deacon, says the letter, which appeared on the website last week.
All of which enables Ms Tartt to make a rich study of race, class and family with a sprawling cast of characters: maiden aunts, an oily Baptist deacon, car salesmen, pool-hall hustlers and the black help that function just as easily as surrogate family or helpful, tidy ghosts.Tension created in a somnolent setting is key to how this novel works.
The fictional deacon in the humorous poem crafted a two-wheeled chaise in such a logical fashion that, with each part made as strong as the other, it could never break down.
A deaconess from 1983, she was ordained as a deacon in 1987, and held posts in two London parishes before ordination as a priest in 1994 the first year the Church of England did such a thing and ten years teaching liturgy and spirituality at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.
Their driver, a deacon, was killed.Not much had been heard about their fate.
"I've come to realise that God has been preparing me for this storm my entire life," he said Sunday morning at Elizabeth Baptist Church, where he is a deacon.
A vicar's son, he was ordained as a deacon but declined to become a priest in protest against a homophobic wave that gripped the Church of England in the 1980s.
Sitting on the churchyard wall Artur Agaranyan, a soldier-turned-deacon, describes with pride how they fought off the attackers from the opposite hill.
Rachel Deacon A PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, she has experience of conducting research in the UK, Uganda and South Africa.
Written, directed by and starring Adam Deacon, it works very nicely and, along with the forthcoming Attack the Block, signifies a shift in the British subgenre known in the industry as the "hoodie" movie.
Michael Deacon in the Telegraph thought Miliband, "his face a ferocious, glaring grin", reminded readers that the Tory campaign "has sought to highlight Mr Miliband's awkwardness and timidity".
