Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Priests collectively; the priesthood: in contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt.
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- noun derogatory, obsolete
Priests collectively; thepriesthood .
Etymologies
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priest + -ery
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Examples
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The sectarian college had put him out of joint with priestery.
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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-- a Minister of ninety almost, a sovereign of whom all that can be said is that he is a great canonist, and all that little bubbling and boiling of priestery and monkery, which is at once odious, mischievous, and contemptible, a sort of extinct volcano, all the stink of the sulphur without any of the splendour of the eruption.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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