hierophant
noun
(in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
hierophantic
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a word derived from
hierophant.
Example Sentences
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This is hierophantic theater, as old as time, as young as the infancy of man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Few of my readers would understand these hierophantic words, were I to leave them unexplained.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
At the end of this bench, near the gallery, I see a majestic bearded figure, strangely coifed and robed all in white, seated upon the matted floor in hierophantic attitude.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
But at the word Of the ancient, sacerdotal Night, Night of the many secrets, whose effect - Transfiguring, hierophantic, dread - Themselves alone may fully apprehend, They tremble and are changed.
From Poems by William Ernest Henley
Their lofty fantastic head-dresses, their voluminous and beautiful costume, and the solemn immobility of their hierophantic attitudes make them at first sight seem marvellous statues only.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
