priesthood

Example Sentences

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By Friday, tens of thousands of people of all ages, including several from the priesthood, braved the heat to participate in the occasion.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

And then as I say in the book, I came home and turned on the TV and saw a documentary about Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, and monastic life and the priesthood.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

WSJ: You and Powell have come from similar backgrounds, not academic, not from the priesthood of central banking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Typically, it’s an arcane and extremely nerdy process that occurs once a decade, after the census, and mainly draws attention from a small priesthood of line-drawing experts and political obsessives.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

His Self had crawled into this priesthood, into this arrogance, into this intellectuality.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse