priestliness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for priestliness
Noun
  • The outer appearances distracted me from the inner holiness.
    Rabbi Jack Engel, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
  • However, Christianity honored the holiness of these transgender saints.
    Sarah Barringer, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Journalism prevailed for the sanctity of the Triple Crown.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2025
  • We’re given flowers, cards and brunch menus, while politicians praise the sanctity of family and the nobility of maternal love.
    Sarah Leonardi, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • In the past couple of years, Corbin got sober, went vegan, and became engaged with politics and spirituality.
    Eamon Whalen, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
  • Was that a common thing for you, to connect Indigenous brothers on the inside with the spirituality, and really push that?
    Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • In order to be considered for sainthood, a contender needs to have two miracles attributed to them.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 13 June 2025
  • The move fit into the pope's broader understanding of martyr as a social justice concept, allowing those deemed to have been killed for doing God's work and following the gospel to be considered for sainthood.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • For Iranians themselves, it’s been a deeply frustrating recurring cycle, most recently experienced in the protests in 2022 that followed the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who had been detained by the religious morality police.
    ERIC EDELMAN, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2025
  • Iranian morality police had detained Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman, for not wearing the hijab properly.
    Sara Monetta, NBC news, 19 June 2025
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“Priestliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priestliness. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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