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
The author attempts to rebut the idea "that priests have blighted societies with bitterness and gloom," by pointing out that in one or two priest-ridden countries wine and song and dance abound.
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius
"What is a poor man to do, whose wife is priest-ridden, and got to be no company—except for angels?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
But he specialised as a lama, for in that character he would meet with the least interference in the priest-ridden country.
From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon
Adj. ecclesiastical, ecclesiological†; clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular†, theocratic; hierarchical, archiepiscopal; episcopal, episcopalian; canonical; monastic, monachal†; monkish; abbatial†, abbatical†; Anglican†; pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish; ultramontane, priest-ridden.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
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