priestliness

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 priestliness can be so particularly draining and frustrating.

'The Christian Priest Today': lecture on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Ripon College, Cuddesdon 2004

There have been many ways in history, royal or noble birth, priestliness, popular vote, a sociological theory, et cetera, et cetera.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

There have been many ways in history, royal or noble birth, priestliness, popular vote, a sociological theory, et cetera, et cetera.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

And he merely represents in a very high degree the sort of priestliness that the true collector feels towards his temporary possessions.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

There was priestliness writ large upon his countenance.

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

Vicar's priestliness, which latterly had perhaps grown more marked, just as his church had grown more ritualistic.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

Source of sacred mysteries, by manifesting the Heavenly Hierarchies to us, and constituting our Hierarchy as fellow-ministers with them, through our imitation of their Godlike priestliness [163], so far as in us lies, described under sensible likeness the supercelestial Minds, in the inspired compositions of the Oracles, in order that It might lead us through the sensible to the intelligible [164], and from inspired symbols to the simple sublimities of the Heavenly Hierarchies.

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

The Emperor was believed to incline to him; Arcadius had succumbed to the ascendency of the bad hypocrite, Theophilus of Alexandria, a man who, in his boundless ambition, his hateful unscrupulosity, and his fierce cruelty when he was aroused to envy or hatred, was perhaps the worst type of many bad forms of priestliness in an evil age.

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

Here, more than ever, was the gentle priestliness and innocency apparent.

Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

His unwearying devotion gained the admiration of all, no matter how little inclined one might be to view priestliness generally with favor.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887