Meaning & use
sexton
A person employed to take care of a church and churchyard, traditionally including digging graves and ringing bells.
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The old sexton had rung the church bells every Sunday morning for over forty years.
Records kept by the parish sexton listed every burial in the churchyard since 1750.
A note on using this word
Sexton is a somewhat old-fashioned job title now mostly found in historical novels or descriptions of traditional parishes.
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