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The professional quality or manner of a certain type of clergy.

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Usage examples (9)
  • And he merely represents in a very high degree the sort of priestliness that the true collector feels towards his temporary possessions.
  • It is a task that is necessarily profoundly co-operative, yet one in which there is an irreducible element of personal investment; which is why this aspect of...
  • There was priestliness writ large upon his countenance.
  • The priestliness of meat-eating is more attractive to me, for now.
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