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聖職
せいしょく
1. [n]
▶ esteemed profession (e.g. priest, monk, teacher, doctor, etc.)
▶ venerable vocation
2. [n] {Christianity}
▶ ministry
▶ priesthood
▶ holy orders



History:
9. A 2025-09-23 07:09:18  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
8. A* 2025-09-20 15:28:50  Sombrero1
  Comments:
That's reasonable, I also prefer "esteemed" over "sacred" there, at least English.
7. A* 2025-09-20 06:43:44  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
6. A 2025-09-20 06:43:17  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
"sacred profession" is not really used in English, and I think is a inappropriate as a gloss.
I'll pin this version and reopen.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>sacred profession (e.g. priest, monk, (school)teacher, doctor, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>esteemed profession (e.g. priest, monk, teacher, doctor, etc.)</gloss>
@@ -19,0 +20 @@
+<gloss>holy orders</gloss>
5. A* 2025-09-18 16:43:06  Sombrero1
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 聖職  │ 176,838 │ 98.3% │
│ 聖職の │   2,999 │  1.7% │drop [adj-no]
╰─ーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
Dajijsen:
1 神聖な職業・職務。
2 宗教集団において、信徒の上に立ち、儀式の執行、信徒指導のほか、神殿や寺院または教会の運営・管理に当たる専門職。

Sankoku:
①神聖な職務。
②〔キリスト教で〕僧職(そうしょく)。
「━者」

ルミナス:
1 《牧師の職》: the ministry [U].
	*聖職につく take holy orders / go into [enter; join] the 「church [ministry]
2 《神聖な職業》: sacred 「vocation [calling; profession] [C] ★vocation, calling は天職, profession は専門的職業
         教職は*聖職であると見なされていた Teaching was regarded as a sacred profession.

GendaiShinkoku:
1 聖なる職業・職務。特にキリスト教の神父や牧師など。
2 自己犠牲をともなう慈善活動家や、社会的責任の大きい医師、学校教師などの仕事。
 [美化した言い方]

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  Comments:
I agree with anon that the entry is unclear in its current state.
I do think that "ministry" and "priesthood" are appropriate for the Christian church specific sense though

Maybe this serves it better?
  Diff:
@@ -12,3 +12,6 @@
-<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
-<gloss>holy orders</gloss>
-<gloss>vocation</gloss>
+<gloss>sacred profession (e.g. priest, monk, (school)teacher, doctor, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>venerable vocation</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&Christn;</field>
@@ -16 +19 @@
-<gloss>sacred profession</gloss>
+<gloss>priesthood</gloss>
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