Brewer's: Adams, Parson

Parson Adams, the ideal of a benevolent, simple-minded, eccentric country clergyman; ignorant of the world, bold as a lion for the truth, and modest as a girl. The character is in Fielding's novel of Joseph Andrews.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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