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- noun Common misspelling of
hierophants .
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Examples
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"How often do your heirophants get their cards back folded, stapled, spindled, mutilated, and accompanied by nasty letters?"
The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984
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For a spirit of Deity makes the holy heirophants strong;
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860
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if it did require slavish devotion to tradition, then Vatican II would be a supreme heresy, for challenging the authority of the prior heirophants. but CALLING Vatican II a heresy would in itself be heresy, as it challenges the supreme authority of the current pope.
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