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Meaning of "priestliest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRIESTLIEST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIESTLIEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Priestliest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIESTLIEST

prie-dieu
pried
prier
pries
priest
priest-hole
priest-ridden
priest´s hole
priestcraft
priestess
priesthood
Priestley
priestlier
priestlike
priestliness
priestling
priestly
priestship
prig
prigged

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIESTLIEST

artiest
at the earliest
chilliest
costliest
deadliest
earliest
friendliest
godliest
holiest
jolliest
liveliest
loneliest
loveliest
lowliest
manliest
sightliest
silliest
sliest
smelliest
timeliest
ugliest

Synonyms and antonyms of priestliest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRIESTLIEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «priestliest» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of priestliest

Translation of «priestliest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIESTLIEST

Find out the translation of priestliest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of priestliest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «priestliest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

priestliest
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

priestliest
570 millions of speakers

English

priestliest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

priestliest
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

priestliest
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

priestliest
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

priestliest
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

priestliest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

priestliest
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Priestliest
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

priestliest
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

priestliest
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

priestliest
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Imam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

priestliest
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

priestliest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

याजकत्वाचे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

priestliest
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

priestliest
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

priestliest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

priestliest
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

priestliest
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

priestliest
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

priestliest
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

priestliest
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

priestliest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of priestliest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIESTLIEST»

The term «priestliest» is used very little and occupies the 188.058 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIESTLIEST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about priestliest

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIESTLIEST»

Discover the use of priestliest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to priestliest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
One Happy Old Priest
... wasthe most “priestly” manI ever knew.He was tall, andhehad blue eyes thatlooked through you. Inmy boyish way, Isawtheblack hair downthe back of his hands as the priestliest thingabout him. Oddly, that conservative man had something to ...
Thomas K. Sullivan, 2010
2
WORD JUDGE USA
... PRIES PRIEST PRIESTED PRIESTESS PRIESTESSES PRIESTHOOD PRIESTHOODS PRIESTING PRIESTLIER PRIESTLIEST PRIESTLINESS PRIESTLINESSES PRIESTLY PRIESTS PRIG PRIGGED PRIGGERIES PRIGGERY PRIGGING ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
3
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards, a tragedy
By Christ, if God forbade it not, I would have said within mine own fool's heart, Of all vile things that fool the soul of man The vilest and the priestliest hath to name Repentance. Could it blot one hour's work out, A wise acrn] ROSAMUND 31.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
4
Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His ...
They had their humble meetinghouse, ' thatched with heath ;' and for minister a certain John Johnstone, from whom Carlyle himself learned afterwards his first Latin; ' the priestliest man,' he says, ' I ever under any ecclesiastical guise was ...
James Anthony Froude, 2011
5
Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne ...
By Christ,if God forbade itnot, I would have said within mine own fool's heart, Of all vilethings thatfool the soulof man The vilest and the priestliest hath to name Repentance.Coulditblot one hour's work out, A wise thing and a manful thingit were, ...
Algernon Charles Swinburne, 2013
6
Reminiscences
They had built a little meeting-house at Ecclefechan, thatched with heath, and chosen them a priest, by name John Johnston, the priestliest man I ever under any ecclesiastical guise was privileged to look upon. He in his last years helped me ...
Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, 2012
7
Music in the Late Twentieth Century: The Oxford History of ...
24 From now on he would identify with the romantic, asocial concept of artistry in its priestliest form, as defined for the twentieth century in the passage from the French theologian Jacques Maritain that stands at the head of the previous chapter ...
Richard Taruskin, 2009
8
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant ...
Carlyle has pictured for us his early home at Ecclefechan on the Border; hisfather ,astone mason of the highest character; his mother with her frugal, pious ways; the minister, from whom he learned Latin, 'the priestliest man I ever beheld in any  ...
Edward Moore, 2013
9
Elliott Carter Studies
... and Shrefiler, ECCP, pp. 133 ff. with his First Quartet Carter identified 11 Schmidt, “Emanzipation des musikalischen himself “with the romantic, asocial concept of Diskurses,” pp. 214-15. artistry in his priestliest form,” reads like an 12 F W, p.
Marguerite Boland, John Link, 2012
10
A Dying Breed of Brave Men: The Self-Written Stories of Nine ...
I remember thinking years ago, before I left, that he and one other priest I knew were the “priestliest” of all, the kind that would never ever leave, the kind that were the perfect fit, who would absorb any level of abuse. I was correct. He didn't quit.
Robert J. Brousseau, 2003

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Priestliest [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/priestliest>. May 2024 ».
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