DIACONATES Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

diaconates

noun

plural of diaconate

as in episcopates

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laities

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hierarchies

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There's this near total erasure based on what the AI, just scraping Instagram, scraping faces, scraping the kind of racial hierarchies and preferences that are built into every system in our country.

— Tonya Mosley, NPR, 22 July 2026
Languages also encode values—gender hierarchies baked into pronouns, honorifics that perpetuate caste distinctions—that liberal-minded activists may not be eager to preserve as valuable pieces of linguistic heritage.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

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