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Let Associate Bumfiddle pass along bookkeeping numbers to Account Manager Fred Faddle's techno team for the moral equivalent of waterboarding, which in this case means processing these hapless raw numbers through hierophantic hermeneutical quantitative models worthy of Kafka's penal colony, and keep processing them till the numbers themselves confess "this bank is sound, this bank is viable, this bank is going to be profitable," and of course "this bank nonetheless owes no taxes."— Stop Me Before I Vote Again
Few of my readers would understand these hierophantic words, were I to leave them unexplained.— What is Property?
Peace of the druid priests of Cymbeline: hierophantic: from wide earth an altar.— Ulysses
Abundant information is also supplied on this subject by that hierophantic naturalist, Aldrovandus, _de Quadrup.— Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Transfiguring, hierophantic, dread --— The Man Whom the Trees Loved

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