priestliness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for priestliness
Noun
  • Groups supporting a candidate for sainthood campaign to publicize their holiness.
    Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, the fruit’s holiness is signaled in the Pentateuch.
    Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The designer’s namesake label delved into his passion for denim and also the sanctity of water.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The existential gripes from older generations about the sanctity of live show experiences seem to misunderstand the moment.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At its core, this transit is a reminder that clarity is power and in Virgo’s world, cleanliness really is next to godliness.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Cowliness is next to godliness.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Since 2017, Rosales has turned that absence into a bold visual language—one that not only centers West African spirituality but also traces its survival through colonization, enslavement, and the transatlantic slave trade.
    Yola Robert, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • While this spirituality is inherent within the culture presented onscreen, seen through rituals and ceremonies, Hamlet is also faced with symbols of Hindu deities, one in a particularly pivotal moment, causing internal reflection.
    Katherine Singh, Refinery29, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Pope Francis fervently willed the Acutis sainthood case forward — convinced that the church needed someone like him to attract young Catholics to the faith while addressing the promises and perils of the digital age.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The interview is one of countless media appearances Salzano has made, protecting and promoting her son's image at the time that officials in the Vatican deliberated on whether to progress the application for his sainthood.
    Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But then Lacey was back with the kids, banging around in the kitchen, and the first of the evening’s friends and acquaintances began to show up and the blessedness passed, as had the roadrunner, hyperactive and vigilant and always on the make, gone off to seek somebody else’s snakes.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Continue reading … FAITH KNOCKOUT – Ben Shapiro and Bill Maher clash over morality and the Bible.
    , FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • On September 16, 2022, a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jîna Amini was killed in Tehran by the city’s morality police.
    Fatemeh Jamalpour, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Priestliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priestliness. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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