exorciser
Example Sentences
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The natural and indeed necessary complement to the priest as exorciser is the priest as the forecaster of the future.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
The Church could not have influenced the world as she has done, had she been nothing more than a healer of diseases and an exorciser of demons.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
The exorciser would have no difficulty in threading his way through the complicated mass.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
Accompanying these threats, the actions indicated were symbolically performed by the exorciser on effigies of the witches made, in this case, of bitumen covered with pitch.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
A higher mode of belief is the best exorciser, because it makes the spiritual at one with the actual world instead of hostile, or at best alien.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
