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priesteries

priesteries is the plural of priestery.

Meaning of priestery

Noun

priestery (usually uncountable, plural priesteries)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete, often, usually) Priests collectively; the priesthood.
    • What greater argument of disgrace and ignominy could have been thrown with cunning upon the whole clergy, than that the king, among all his priestery, and all those numberless volumes of their theological distillations not meeting with one man or book of that coat that could befriend him with a...1649 October, John Milton, Eikonoklastes. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, The PORTRAITURE of his SACRED MAJESTY in his Solitudes and Sufferings, Preface

Questions about priesteries

What is priesteries the plural of?
Priesteries is the plural of priestery.

Words near priesteries in the dictionary

  1. priestdom
  2. priestdoms
  3. priested
  4. priesteen
  5. priesteens
  6. priesteries
  7. priestery
  8. priestess
  9. priestess of Venus
  10. priestessed
  11. priestesses

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