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priesthood

[preest-hood]

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noun

the condition or office of a priest.

priests collectively.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English presthed(e), presthod(e), Old English prēosthād. See priest, -hood

Related forms

an·ti·priest·hood, adjective

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priesthood (ˈpriːstˌhʊd)

—n
1.	the state, order, or office of a priest
2.	priests collectively

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Word Origin & History

priesthood

O.E. preosthad; see priest + -hood. Priestcraft originally was "the business of being a priest" (late 15c.); after rise of Protestantism and the Enlightenment, it acquired a pejorative sense of "arts of ambitious priests for temporal power and social control" (1680s).

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