priest-ridden
Britishadjective
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The Cock, said O'Casey, represents "the joyful, active spirit of life as it weaves a way through the Irish scene," and it spreads terror among the crabbed codgers and priest-ridden puritans of the countryside.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dante broke in angrily: —If we are a priest-ridden race we ought to be proud of it!
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
I told him some things I knew of that hopeless land, that priest-ridden, king-ridden country—my own land.
From 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough
For what ignoble design did he put an old Truth Teller into a parcel, and make his priest-ridden minion declare that it was a very valuable packet of letters from John Monk?
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
At'nt in pulpit now? when art a got up there I never mind what dost say; but I won't be priest-ridden, nor taught how to behave myself by thee.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
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