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high priesthood
noun
- the condition or office of a high priest.
- high priests collectively.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of high priesthood1
First recorded in 1525–35
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Example Sentences
But Germond and his contemporaries were a better high priesthood than the priesthood we have now.
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And he confirmed him in the high priesthood and all the honours he had before, and he made him the chief of his friends.
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Further, the idea of hereditary high priesthood, or family sanctity at any rate, is thoroughly congruous to Oriental thought.
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Thus Jason stripped the high-priesthood of its sacred character and did what he could to stamp out Judaism.
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The inference is that His high-priesthood has abolished the old covenant and ratified the new.
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Then the high priesthood descended to each of his sons for the posterity of each.
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