Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A supporter of sacerdotalism; one who believes in the priestly character of the clergy.

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  • noun One who practices sacerdotalism.

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Examples

  • At the same time it is important that the doctrine of the ministry should not be allowed to become "sacerdotalist" in a wrong sense.

    Religious Reality 1922

  • Christian origins does not leave the sacerdotalist much to stand on.

    The New Theology 1911

  • He remonstrated vigorously against an “anti-Christian article” which crept into the Edinburgh Review; and felt, as keenly as the strongest sacerdotalist or the most fervent Evangelical, the bounden duty of defending the body of truth to which his Ordination had pledged him.

    Sydney Smith Rusell, George W E 1904

  • With the high sacerdotalist it amounted to a denial of the Christian mysteries; to the Broad Churchman it was ethically inadequate and ignoble; to the scholastic professor of divinity it meant ruinous materialism.

    Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

  • He was a thoroughgoing sacerdotalist and believer in the authority of the

    Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

  • While sojourning for one night with a hospitable though superstitious acquaintance, whom he met after leaving Salisbury, "Lavengro" heard the story of the Rev.Mr. Platitude, a sacerdotalist of weak intellects who had been cajoled from his lawful allegiance to the "good, quiet Church of

    Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

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