Priesthood
['priːsthʊd] or ['pristhʊd]
Definition
(n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function.
(n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests.
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Examples
- But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the days of ignorance there had been an extraordinary willingness to believe the Catholic priesthood good and wise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The primary duty of this priesthood was concerned with the worship of and the sacrifices to the god of the temple. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His innovation had manifestly raised the suspicion and hostility of the priesthood of Bel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The power of a priesthood is a power over their own people alone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Within the priesthood, however, a certain amount of thinking went on at a rather higher level than that. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One portion of the men go into the military, another into the priesthood, and the rest into the shoe-making business. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This brought him into conflict with the official religion and the priesthood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Learning was not indeed so complete a withdrawal from ordinary life as initiation into a priesthood, but it was still something in that nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You could have no intellectual life at all, you could not get access to literature or any knowledge except through the priesthood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Men sought fresh forms of righteous living outside the monasteries and priesthood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The priesthood can gather its people together for war, but its traditionalism and all its methods unfit it for military control. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No doubt there were great differences between temple and temple and cult and cult in the spirit and quality of the priesthood. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But in bringing in the irreligious Aryans, the ancient priesthood was paying too highly for the continuation of its temple services. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Moreover, there is little evidence that the commonalty felt cheated by the priests, or had anything but trust and affection for the early priesthoods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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