prelacy

Example Sentences

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But always again, where royalty wavered, or on the other hand in desperation leaped to violent opposition, the prelacy was close behind it with an urgency which often bordered upon dictation.

From William Bradford of Plymouth by Plumb, Albert Hale

For then they would first repent themselves of their own conformity with prelacy, of their breach of covenant, &c.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

But Dering appears only really to have aimed at the abolition of Laud's archiepiscopacy, and to have wished to see some purer form of prelacy re-established in place of the old.

From Books Condemned to be Burnt by Farrer, James Anson

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

From Curious Epitaphs by Various

Considering how bishoprics go in the present day, we are astonished how the prelacy of Durham can pay at the price, and how, in fact, the bishop can manage to do it for the money.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various