priesting
priesting noun: the ordination of a priest. Also the present participle and gerund of priest.
Noun
priesting (usually uncountable, plural priestings)
- The ordination of a priest.
- I’m never unmoved by a priesting and I found myself thinking a lot about the power to bind and loose which is bestowed at ordination.2009 August 29, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Ordination in Edinburgh”, in Thurible.net
- Methodists remained unimpressed by the tortuous path that its Covenant partner had taken towards allowing women into the episcopate (finally achieved in 2014, twenty years after the first priestings of women and fourteen years after the synodical process began).2017, Jeremy Morris, The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV
- The office of a priest.
- “My Son,” saith he, “honour God & the King ; but I say, honour God and the bishop as high-priest, bearing the image of God according to his ruling, and of Christ, according to his priesting, and after him honour the king.”1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy
Also used as
priesting is also the present participle and gerund of priest.
Forms of priesting
| plural | priestings |
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Origin of priesting
From priest + -ing.
Questions about priesting
- What does priesting mean?
- Priesting means the ordination of a priest.
- What part of speech is priesting?
- Priesting is a noun.
- What is the plural of priesting?
- The plural of priesting is priestings.
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