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prelacy

noun as in diocese

noun as in primacy

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The commission’s other Democrat, Rebecca Slaughter, was critical of the FTC’s inability to hold Mr. Zuckerberg more personally responsible for the company’s inability to be transparent about personal prelacy.

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Twice did I see old prelacy pulled down, And twice the cloak did sink beneath the gown.

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Something more was required to render that success permanent by arousing anew the trust and confidence of the people, and that something could not be supplied by a worldly and ambitious prelacy.

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The prominent pagan symbols which are now adopted by the Christian prelacy are generally astronomical.

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The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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