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 While the Morrises were known for lavish garden parties, the priests preferred life more low-key, and converted the home’s former wet bar into an altar and prayer station, which still exists in the home. —

Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026 Al-Amil said the pope spoke in French with the priests during the video call that lasted about a minute and urged them to stay in their hometowns. —

ABC News, 6 May 2026 The Hippocratic doctors vigorously denounced the religious healers of the day, such as the priests toiling in the temple of Asclepius. —

Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 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 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 Pilate did not cave to hostile crowds indiscriminately, or do whatever the chief priests wanted. —

Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025 How are priests and comedians similar? —

Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025

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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