prelacy
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To this prelacy and intolerance would have been joined inevitably.
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
See that objection of hearing prelatical men in the time of former prelacy, answered above, Period 4.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
As for Mrs. Lee, she was so proud of the honor of being aunt to a minister, that she almost forgot her dislike to prelacy.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various
The Quaker, therefore, soon participated in the persecutions which prelacy thought due to liberal christianity.
From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Brantz Mayer
The Sovereign Pontiff and the flower of the Roman prelacy begged her to take up her residence in the Eternal City, but she could not be prevailed upon to leave the land of her birth.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
My honour and my manly dignity are of greater value in my eyes than all your livings, prelacies, and mitres; and I am ready to defend my honour against every one, even against Dr. Ritter.
From John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch by Anonymous
