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priestery

priestery noun: priests collectively; the priesthood.

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

Forms of priestery

pluralpriesteries

Origin of priestery

From priest + -ery.

Questions about priestery

What does priestery mean?
Priestery means priests collectively; the priesthood.
What part of speech is priestery?
Priestery is a noun.
What is the plural of priestery?
The plural of priestery is priesteries.

Words near priestery in the dictionary

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

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