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Meanings of priestlike in English

Befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood.

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Examples for "priestly"
Examples for "priestly"
1
But in the main the results were very helpful to priestly morale.
Gather, Darkness!
2
But there are rising concerns about the validity of the priestly practice.
News.com.au
3
The apparatus of priestly maladministration was restored in all its ancient deformity.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
4
I took his underhand air for a priestly air; I did wrong.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
5
But unlike Tayoga, he had in him none of the priestly quality.
The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
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