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priesthood

/preest-hood/US // ˈprist hʊd //UK // (ˈpriːstˌhʊd) //

圣职,神职,祭司职位,祭司

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the condition or office of a priest.
    • : priests collectively.

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Examples

  • She has also lost her right to be a priesthood holder, a religious honor granted only to men in the Church.

  • For a lot of Mormon women, asking ‘Do you want the priesthood?’

  • Having created a picture of Hell, the Tea Party priesthood must furnish the faithful with an image of Paradise.

  • If you are a man, and therefore a priesthood holder, it takes a council of 15 men to agree on excommunication.

  • Until relatively recently, Mormons excluded African-Americans from the priesthood.

  • These two phenomenal facts imply some strong antagonism to the priesthood and their system.

  • The Roman Catholic priesthood, to a man, would lend to it the influence of all its spiritual authority.

  • And through Christ come all the distinguishing features, and all the high privileges of his people, as an holy priesthood.

  • Had it not been for the Everlasting Covenant, the rite of sacrifice had not been instituted, and a priesthood had not been.

  • Those faithful to the covenant of the priesthood are approved, while the desecrators thereof are fearfully condemned.