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Meanings of priestly in anglès
Associated with the priesthood or priests.
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Sinònims
Examples for "profession"
Examples for "profession"
1
General practice in Ireland is no longer seen as a viable profession.
2
The medical profession should equally be made aware of these new problems.
3
The aftermath of the war has created a new, illegal profession: scavenger.
4
My sense of calling to the social work profession has remained strong.
5
Teaching needs to be considered a profession and held in higher regard.
1
They were built also by sacerdotal monarchs, in honor of the deity.
2
Moss told me, It's controversial whether the Egyptians were really that sacerdotal.
3
While favouring sacerdotal celibacy the council laid rather rigid restrictions on monasticism.
4
Mr. Slope's ideas of sacerdotal rule are of quite a different class.
5
Details of the arrangements of the sacerdotal 'courses' need not detain us.
1
Finally, it is a hieratic worship, in the hands of priests.
2
The robe of yellow silk fell about him in hieratic folds.
3
It peered into his face hieratic and unknowable as the night.
4
The text is written in the hieratic character and reads:
5
As an example of the formal hieratic type of portraiture it is very fine.
1
They made innuendoes concerning the stability of the other articles of hieratical law.
2
Hieratical, incapable of seeing earth, he gazed always toward heaven.
Usage of priestly in anglès
1
But in the main the results were very helpful to priestly morale.
2
But there are rising concerns about the validity of the priestly practice.
3
The apparatus of priestly maladministration was restored in all its ancient deformity.
4
I took his underhand air for a priestly air; I did wrong.
5
But unlike Tayoga, he had in him none of the priestly quality.
6
The accused priests have been barred from performing priestly duties in public.
7
Hush your priestly lies, which sink a new terror in my soul.
8
He was less impressed by the priestly view than with the implication.
9
The expression translated worship is the technical word for rendering priestly service.
10
Therefore it belongs not to the priestly office to catechize and exorcize.
11
Jord Parma knew his priestly lingo well and did his job magnificently.
12
And Doeg, the Edomite, killed eighty-five men who wore the priestly garments.
13
The priestly interests of Ezekiel are easily explained by his early environment.
14
Still more remarkable is the fact of its having no priestly caste.
15
The solution of this question which he proposes reveals his priestly training.
16
The high-priestly rulers do not appear to have welcomed Nehemiah with enthusiasm.
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Priestly through the time
Priestly across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common