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prelacy

[prel-uh-see] / ˈprɛl ə si /




NOUN
primacy
Synonyms


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The commission’s other Democrat, Rebecca Slaughter, was critical of the FTC’s inability to hold Mr. Zuckerberg more personally responsible for the company’s inability to be transparent about personal prelacy.

From Washington Times

Twice did I see old prelacy pulled down, And twice the cloak did sink beneath the gown.

From Project Gutenberg

Something more was required to render that success permanent by arousing anew the trust and confidence of the people, and that something could not be supplied by a worldly and ambitious prelacy.

From Project Gutenberg

The prominent pagan symbols which are now adopted by the Christian prelacy are generally astronomical.

From Project Gutenberg

The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling.

From Project Gutenberg