English

Noun

parishioner ‎(plural parishioners)

1. A member of a parish.

Translations

Trivia

One of three common words containing shion, which are cushion, fashion, and parishioner.^[2][3] A variant spelling of the obsolete earlier form was parishion, which gives a third historical English word ending in -shion, not simply containing it.^[3]

References

1. ↑ “parishioner” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
2. ↑ The Word Circus: A Letter-perfect Book, by Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, 1998, p. 259
3. 1 2 Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language, Kate Burridge, 2005, p. 82, p. 184