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How to use priestcraft in a sentence

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Just as Rorty cannot ultimately dispense with either canon or priestcraft, so he cannot quite bring himself to do away with churches either.
He admired Jesus as a moral teacher but like many of America's revolutionaries, he had a visceral loathing for priestcraft.
As Part Two evinced, Paine was much more than a talented popularizer of advanced ideas, a megaphone for the enlightenment project against kingcraft, lordcraft and priestcraft.
Furthermore, through their imagistic power, they seek to shatter the ideological illusions propagated by priestcraft and kingcraft.
Manufacturing and services tended to be monopolized by professional guilds, including religious personnel specializing in sacrifices, oracles, divination, and other kinds of priestcraft.
For all their energised glory, the graphic scores of the Cageans demanded a priestcraft to ensure their authentic interpretation.
Among the great Mughals, Akbar attempted in 1581 to promulgate a new religion, Dīn-e Ilāhī, which was to be based on reason and ethical teachings common to all religions and which was to be free from priestcraft.
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Such a state of opinion excludes the danger of priestcraft, and is opposed to all hierarchal pretensions.
But Mr. Paine was the inveterate enemy to priestcraft as well as kingcraft.
They learn to tremble as little at priestcraft as at swordcraft, having acquired something of each.
It soon became the test of Teutonic patriotism to resist Italian priestcraft.
The surplice was the badge of priestcraft, and he thanked God he was not a priest.
The people for the most part, believed this infamous tissue of priestcraft.
The latter are based on conquest or priestcraft, and the former on reason.
To strengthen this domination, confession to a priest was introduced along with clerisy and priestcraft, vestments and altars.
The world has discarded kingcraft and priestcraft and come to mobcraft.
Not much ahead of ancient Egyptians in spirituality or in priestcraft!
He had resolved to strike a blow at priestcraft before he died.
The priestcraft of the East and West, of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.
There were also Shamans of hunting, of medicine and priestcraft.
But if so, all citizens are at least acolytes to the priestcraft.
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