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.
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.
1 Pindar is more priestlike than patriarchal, more epic than lyrical.
2 He stood there facing the east, priestlike in venerable and solemn worship of the coming sun.
3 He put his pen down and folded his hands, priestlike , and waited for her to speak.
4 The dead men's clothes were anything but priestlike .
5 Upon this topic his voice descended to tones of priestlike awe: for are we not the envy of the world?
6 He would also have had another manner of cap of me, but I had none but priestlike , such as his own was.
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