Associated with the priesthood or priests.
Befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood.
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Examples for "priestlike "
Examples for "priestlike "
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?
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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