Definition of Doorkeepers

1. Noun. (plural of doorkeeper) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doorkeepers

1. doorkeeper [n] - See also: doorkeeper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doorkeepers

doorcheek
doorcheeks
doore
doored
doores
doorframe
doorframes
doorga
doorgame
doorgames
doorhandle
dooring
doorjamb
doorjambs
doorkeeper
doorkeepers (current term)
doorknob
doorknobs
doorknock
doorknocked
doorknocker
doorknockers
doorknocking
doorknocks
doorless
doorlike
doorline
doorlock
doormaker
doormakers

Literary usage of Doorkeepers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... 20 lectors, 4 cantors, and 7 doorkeepers. From these two examples we may infer what the other smaller or larger churches must have required. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"24), mentions them among the minor clergy, placing them between the singers and the doorkeepers, and, in another canon (c. 26), forbids any to exorcise ..."

3. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"... at the holy service, which they were wont to love; yet their bodies even in the grave might, аз it were, be doorkeepers for ever in the house of God. ..."

4. Fares, Please!: And Other Essays on Practical Themes by Halford Edward Luccock (1916)
"Why not be doorkeepers? We think of the confession of David, "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the tents of wickedness ..."

5. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1907)
"On motion, Peter Gooding, James Mulloy, William Murphy and Nicholas Murphey, were appointed doorkeepers. The Convention adjourned until to-morrow morning ..."

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