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priesthood

[preest-hood] / ˈprist hʊd /


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David’s eventual decision to leave the priesthood for Margaret is painful and momentous.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

By Friday, tens of thousands of people of all ages, including several from the priesthood, braved the heat to participate in the occasion.

From BBC Apr. 17, 2026

And then as I say in the book, I came home and turned on the TV and saw a documentary about Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, and monastic life and the priesthood.

From Slate Feb. 21, 2026

Typically, it’s an arcane and extremely nerdy process that occurs once a decade, after the census, and mainly draws attention from a small priesthood of line-drawing experts and political obsessives.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2025

And it befell that when Zacharias should do the office of the priesthood in the order of his course before God,

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton




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