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Meanings of priestlike in English

Befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood.

      Usage of priestlike in English
      1
      Pindar is more priestlike than patriarchal, more epic than lyrical.
      Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not...
      2
      He stood there facing the east, priestlike in venerable and solemn worship of the coming sun.
      Darkness and Dawn
      3
      He put his pen down and folded his hands, priestlike, and waited for her to speak.
      Death at La Fenice
      4
      The dead men's clothes were anything but priestlike.
      Shadow prowler
      5
      Upon this topic his voice descended to tones of priestlike awe: for are we not the envy of the world?
      Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4
      6
      He would also have had another manner of cap of me, but I had none but priestlike, such as his own was.
      The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
      Priestlike through the time