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Recent Examples of Synonyms for priestliness
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Others limit prayer to God alone and emphasize remembering saints primarily as historical models of holiness.
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Even adversaries in the Arab world have never sunk to attacking the holiness of the Western Wall.
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Safety The sanctity of human life remains the master priority.
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This fear of collective consciousness is that which drives the straight path and its state and federal architects to do everything in their power to pave over the work and sanctity of ethnic studies.
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In the years following Wallace’s death, this aura of saintliness likely derived from the combination of his moral seriousness as a fiction writer—his attunement to the heroism of private suffering and emotional endurance—and the fact of his premature end.
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On both sides of the war for Gilead, usefulness is next to godliness.
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At its core, this transit is a reminder that clarity is power and in Virgo’s world, cleanliness really is next to godliness.
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Some critics on social media counter that the gatherings risk turning spirituality into spectacle, performance and commodity all at once.
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His opponents in an Indigenous game of guessing, strategy and spirituality pointed to the left.
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Pure sainthood is inspiring but fragile in competitive markets.
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Gaudí, the famed Catalan architect who is on the path to possible sainthood, spent four decades designing and building the temple as the summary of the Christian faith carved in stone.
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But then Lacey was back with the kids, banging around in the kitchen, and the first of the evening’s friends and acquaintances began to show up and the blessedness passed, as had the roadrunner, hyperactive and vigilant and always on the make, gone off to seek somebody else’s snakes.
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The 22-year-old died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s mandatory hijab rules, The National reported.
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Marjane depicts our terrifying teachers, the violent morality police and our collective and perpetual fear that we might be caught, hurt, arrested, killed.
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“Priestliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priestliness. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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