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antipriestly

antipriestly adjective: going against what is normal or expected for a priest.

Adjective

antipriestly (comparative more antipriestly, superlative most antipriestly)

  1. Going against what is normal or expected for a priest.
    • The Pharisees were mostly laymen; to some extent they were antipriestly. The group was under the direction of nonpriestly scribes.1984, Hugo Echegaray, The Practice of Jesus, page 51
    • In order to ask oneself whether effective priestly service is at hand, one must look to see whether an unpriestly or antipriestly service is being performed, even among many conventional priestly activities.2015, Jon Sobrino, Principle of Mercy: Taking the Crucified People from the Cross

Forms of antipriestly

comparativemore antipriestly
superlativemost antipriestly

Origin of antipriestly

From anti- + priestly.

Questions about antipriestly

What does antipriestly mean?
Antipriestly means going against what is normal or expected for a priest.
What part of speech is antipriestly?
Antipriestly is an adjective.

Words near antipriestly in the dictionary

  1. antipreparedness
  2. antipress
  3. antiprevention
  4. antipriest
  5. antipriestcraft
  6. antipriestly
  7. antipriests
  8. antiprime
  9. antiprimes
  10. antiprinciple
  11. antiprinciples

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