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
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
Both were the first Protestants of their respective houses, both were attached to prelacy rather than to Presbyterianism, and both were wasteful and slovenly in money matters.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
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 A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
But even from this, one of its last places of refuge, was prelacy now about to be driven.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
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
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