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What is the noun for priestdom?

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priest
  1. A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
  2. A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
  3. (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “As a young priest, he had studied little theology, but this was not considered unusual at the time.”
priesthood
  1. The role or office of a priest
  2. Priests as a group; the clergy
  3. Authority to act in the name of God.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The priesthood plays a crucial role in guiding and ministering to the spiritual needs of the community.”
      “The priesthood is an essential aspect of religious practice, where individuals are ordained to carry out sacred rituals and provide spiritual guidance.”
      “At the same time Dan had begun receiving instructions in preparation to receive the Mormon version of the Aaronic priesthood.”
priestdom
  1. (rare) Political rule or sweeping social control exercised by a class of priests; a ruling class of priests.
  2. (rare) Priests collectively or priests of a particular religious group or affiliation collectively.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Spaniards have become callous by the long rule of despotism, and especially of priestdom.”
priestcraft
  1. The craft of performing the duties of a priest.
  2. (pejorative) Priestly policy directed towards worldly ends.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Just as Rorty cannot ultimately dispense with either canon or priestcraft, so he cannot quite bring himself to do away with churches either.”
      “But Mr. Paine was the inveterate enemy to priestcraft as well as kingcraft.”
      “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.”
priesting
  1. (rare) The ordination of a priest.
  2. (obsolete) The office of a priest.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In practical terms it will mean that priests will spend their time priesting as distinct from the amalgam of very different duties they now perform.”
priestism
  1. The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
priestesshood
  1. Priesthood as it relates to priestesses, i.e. the female kind.
priestling
  1. (derogatory) A petty, insignificant priest.
priestery
  1. (derogatory) Priests collectively; the priesthood.
priestliness
  1. The state or quality of being like a priest.
priestmonk
  1. a monk who is also a priest
  2. Synonyms:
priestess
  1. A woman with religious duties and responsibilities.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The priestess led the followers in a sacred ritual, invoking the blessings of the gods upon them.”
      “Several times she was sanctioned by the high priestess for unruly behavior.”
      “It is part of the attire of a Bosporan priestess to Demeter, goddess of fertility.”
priestress
  1. (rare, nonstandard) A priestess.
priestship
priestesshoods
  1. plural of priestesshood
priestcrafts
  1. plural of priestcraft
priesthoods
  1. plural of priesthood
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The priesthoods of public religion were held by members of the elite classes.”
      “A libertinus was not entitled to hold public office or the highest state priesthoods, but he could play a priestly role in the cult of the emperor.”
      “The priesthoods of the state religion were filled from the same social pool of men who held public office, and in the Imperial era, the Pontifex Maximus was the emperor.”
priestlings
  1. plural of priestling
priestmonks
priestresses
  1. plural of priestress
priestdoms
  1. plural of priestdom
priestings
  1. plural of priesting
priestisms
  1. plural of priestism
priestesses
  1. plural of priestess
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Lesser priests and priestesses serve the shrines of fetishes, minor spirits, and focus on cures and magic charms.”
      “Oracles or priestesses in Zra'Thani were beautiful, tall women clothed in the finest of spider silk.”
      “The Pagan Federation, an umbrella group which represents Druids, shamans, witches and high priestesses, is now receiving up to 1000 calls a week.”
priesteries
  1. plural of priestery
priests
  1. plural of priest
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In the June table of contents, we miscalculated the age of the Jesuit order of priests.”
      “A diocesan bishop does not take on the role of father to fellow priests as an abbot does to monks.”
      “There are separate church procedures in Melbourne and for any complaints against priests of the Jesuit order.”
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