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- noun rare Priests
collectively or priests of a particular religious group oraffiliation collectively.
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Examples
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It is a mistaken belief that priestdom died when they spelled it Presbytery.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Attention has been drawn to his posture of reserve during the great quarrel between the priestdom and the empire, and his firmness in withstanding the violent measures adopted by Gregory IX. and Innocent IV. against the Emperor Frederick II.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830
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Christian spiritualism; and romanticism in turn a reaction against the vapid imitations of antique classic art, "so also do we now behold a reaction against the re-introduction of that Catholic, feudal mode of thought, of that knight-errantry and priestdom, which were being inculcated through literature and the pictorial arts ....
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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