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Word entry · 8 letters

priestly

Best crossword clue

"Clerical"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɹiːstli/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eilprstyStarts with PEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood

Word origin

From Middle English prestly; equivalent to priest + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • Thus we continue to meet the new Priestly expression, “you (they) shall know that I am Yahweh” […]
  • Then, Welch (1939) went the opposite way, asserting that the original layer, written before the end of the exile showed Deuteronomy’s influence and that more Priestly texts were secondary.

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