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PRONUNCIATION OF PRIESTLINESS

priestliness  [ˈpriːstlɪnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIESTLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Priestliness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRIESTLINESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of priestliness in the English dictionary

The definition of priestliness in the dictionary is the quality of being characteristic of a priest.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRIESTLINESS


beggarliness
ˈbeɡəlɪnəs
brotherliness
ˈbrʌðəlɪnəs
cleanliness
ˈklɛnlɪnəs
courtliness
ˈkɔːtlɪnəs
cowardliness
ˈkaʊədlɪnəs
earliness
ˈɜːlɪnəs
earthliness
ˈɜːθlɪnəs
featliness
ˈfiːtlɪnəs
goodliness
ˈɡʊdlɪnəs
knightliness
ˈnaɪtlɪnəs
likeliness
ˈlaɪklɪnəs
loneliness
ˈləʊnlɪnəs
neighborliness
ˈneɪbəlɪnəs
porcelainous
ˈpɔːsəlɪnəs
towardliness
ˈtəʊədlɪnəs
uncleanliness
ʌnˈklenlɪnəs
unkindliness
ʌnˈkaɪndlɪnəs
unloveliness
ʌnˈlʌvlɪnəs
unmanliness
ʌnˈmænlɪnəs
unsaintliness
ʌnˈseɪntlɪnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRIESTLINESS

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRIESTLINESS

agribusiness
big business
bulkiness
business
cleanliness is next to godliness
comeliness
dizziness
do the business
e-business
emptiness
family business
fitness
friendliness
happiness
holiness
laziness
loveliness
readiness
show business
timeliness
trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of priestliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «priestliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRIESTLINESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

priestliness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sacerdotal
570 millions of speakers

English

priestliness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

priestliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكهنوتية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

priestliness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

priestliness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

priestliness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

priestliness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerohanian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

priestliness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

priestliness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

priestliness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepemimpinan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

priestliness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

priestliness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

याजकपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

priestliness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

priestliness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

priestliness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

priestliness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

priestliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

priestliness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

priestliness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

priestliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

priestliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of priestliness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIESTLINESS»

The term «priestliness» is barely ever used and occupies the 199.640 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRIESTLINESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «priestliness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «priestliness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIESTLINESS»

Discover the use of priestliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to priestliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Song of the Nightingale: A Modern Spiritual Canticle
ST. SERAPHIM OF SAVOV Time and again I return to an article by the Irish writer *^S John O'Donohue. In "The Priestliness of the Human Heart," O'Donohue sees priestliness as a participation in the creative and transfigurative nature of God.
Michael Ford, 2005
2
Ministry: Lay Ministry in the Roman Catholic Church: Its ...
It is not the priestliness of the ordained Christian which is the paradigm against which either the priestliness of Jesus or ... the priestliness of the church itself, the priesthood of all believers, is measured, and only then—that is, only against the ...
Kenan Osborne, 2003
3
Ministerial Priesthood in the Third Millennium: Faithfulness ...
Chapter. 4. Priesthood,. Priestliness,. and. Priests. Monsignor. Paul. G. McPartlan . The year we are currently celebrating is called the “Year for Priests” in English, or the “Year of the Priest,” and similarly in German, das Jahr des Priesters or das  ...
‎2009
4
The Evangelical Repository
He only has real power with God. He only was fit to offer up such a sacrifice to God as would suffice to be a full and everlasting propitiation for sins. The priestliness of all preceding priests was but an adumbration of his pre-eminent priestliness ...
‎1871
5
Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
There is an historical unfolding in which Luther unmasks the external hegemony of priestliness, and Marx exposes its internal dominion. The first Reformation is complete. The criticism of popery has its natural endpoint in the criticism of ...
Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson, 1989
6
God's Holy People: A Theme in Biblical Theology
These are 'priestliness' and holiness, the categories through which Israel is given to understand its special identity as an elect people, the people of Yhwh. Clearly, these two themes are not unrelated. I shall, however, examine them separately ...
Jo Bailey Wells, 2000
7
The Person and Place of Jesus Christ
They find no effective fulcrum in a laity like that for any protest they may make against clerical priestliness. ... give to the real and distinctive priestliness of Christianity, will not always be stronger than a lay anti-priestliness of the unspiritual sort.
P. T. Forsyth, 1996
8
The Evangelical repository. Vol. 1- new
He only has real power with God. He only was fit to offer up such a sacrifice to God as would suffice to be a full and everlasting propitiation for sins. The priestliness of all preceding priests was but an adumbration of his pre-eminent priestliness ...
‎1871
9
The Twelve Minor Prophets
The high priest represented the holiness and priestliness of Israel, and that not merely in certain official acts and functions, but so that as a particular Levite and Aaronite, and as the head for the time being of the house of Aaron, he represented ...
Carl Friedrich Keil, Franz Delitzsch, 1868
10
The Ascension and Heavenly Priesthood of Our Lord
They may shrink from the term Sacerdotalism or Priestliness as if it must involve an undue exaltation of the clergy and depreciation of the lay members of the Church. They may even fall into the mistake of totally misapprehending the meaning ...
William Milligan, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIESTLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term priestliness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A 'mock' election that may hold up a straw in the wind for the Big One
... from this demand of their calling, the more successful politicians acquire an outward demeanour often indistinguishable from priestliness. «Irish Independent, May 15»
2
End of an era: Jesuits to leave eastern Montana
At 87, I'm feeling physically infirm, and also as a priest I'm feeling a declining quality of my priestliness. For those two reasons I can see it's ... «Great Falls Tribune, Apr 15»
3
The Serpentine Pavilion has landed - first review
Things don't always turn out the way parents want: Radic is not only an architect, there is a secular priestliness in his architecture too. «Evening Standard, Jun 14»
4
Father Murray: A Priest, Not a Rock Star
... as there were at the now-infamous police disciplinary conference with interim chief Harry Bailey, Murray continues to reveal his priestliness. «Seattle Weekly, Apr 14»
5
Cleaning up the post-George Pell parish in Sydney
Pell doesn't seem to understand that priestliness is not a mitigating factor here. Priestliness makes abuse worse, not better. Way worse. Yet the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 14»
6
True Detective: Flawed Finale to a Classic Series
(Although McConaughey, who was the one espousing these views with an almost ascetic priestliness, by the end perceived meaning in the ... «People Magazine, Mar 14»
7
Losing my religion in la belle province? Not likely.
What Quebec has learnt from generations of patriarchal priestliness is the efficacy of a well-defined "social-cohesion" (the term used in Bill 14). «rabble.ca, Mar 14»
8
Pope Francis: A man of the people with an intellectual side
... an intellectual — and hails from what many Catholics regard as the pinnacle of smart priestliness, the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits. «Toronto Star, Mar 13»
9
A pilgrimage to Mexico to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe
... between evangelization as dialogue and evangelization as didactic teaching; between the native priestliness of the people and an ordained ... «National Catholic Reporter, Feb 13»
10
Balenciaga Spring 2013 Menswear Collection
A fresh proposition indeed, but not as haunting as the opening black suit – the sharpness and priestliness of it made it look as if it were ... «Bloginity, Jun 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Priestliness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/priestliness>. Apr 2024 ».
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