kirk session

noun

1. the lowest court of the Presbyterian Church

Example Sentences

The church's Kirk Session said members were "empathetic" and recognised it could be disturbing for some people.

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A spokesperson said: "The Kirk Session took Environmental Health's suggestion on board, embracing the bible teaching of love thy neighbour as thyself."

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Eight years later in 1860 Isabella was back before the Kirk session for a second illegitimate pregnancy.

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She had been brought before the Kirk session, a group of church elders who policed the moral wellbeing of the community in Braemar, to be admonished for having a child out of wedlock.

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Only two years ago, a wealthy gentleman farmer was rebuked by the "Kirk Session" of the Dissenting Church to which he belonged, for infidelity to his wife.

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