PRIESTS Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

priests

noun

plural of priest

as in preachers

a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church searched for a priest who could perform an exorcism

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Recent Examples of priests An Alameda County jury on Wednesday delivered a $16 million judgment against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, in a key lawsuit that could have far-reaching consequences for both the church and for hundreds of people claiming decades of abuse by its priests. —

Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026 In Colina, Chile, pilgrims on horseback took part in the Quasimodo Feast, a procession held the Sunday following Easter, accompanying priests giving communion to the poor. —

ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026 As faith leaders continue to toe the line between politics and religious teachings, Wenski said that priests and other clergy do not need to shy away from politics, but should not show bias toward one political party over another. —

Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026 Two priests had raised their cassocks and were peeing into his path. —

Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026 But a few days later, one of the priests — Father Pierre Rai, from the nearby village Qlayaa — was killed by an artillery shell which locals say was Israel's, and Israel says was Hezbollah's. —

Lauren Frayer, NPR, 5 Apr. 2026 You, obviously, and your -- and your brother priests are on Pentagon property taking orders, obviously, through the military chain of command. —

CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026 Pope Leo washed the feet of 12 priests on April 2, during the Mass of the Lord's Supper at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome. —

Mike Snider, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026 During the service, the archbishop and priests carried a cross down the cathedral’s center aisle in an emotions-stirring moment for those who witnessed the traditional procession. —

Holly Andres, Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026

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Dollison was a regular contributor to the Church of Christ publication The Living Message, which credited him as being a major inspiration for many influential Arkansas Church of Christ preachers.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2026
Until then, smuggling weed had been a grand adventure, an escape from a society that had just thrown Prager’s generation into a meat grinder in Vietnam, a repudiation of the crooked politicians and backward preachers and greedy capitalists who were running the world.

— Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026