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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The office or position of a deacon.
  • noun Deacons considered as a group.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Deaconship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See deaconship.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun deaconship

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deacon +‎ -ry

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