priest
noun
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
priestlike
-
a word derived from
priest.
Example Sentences
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Architecture often combines these strands, longtime practitioners and scholars say, featuring stiff credentialing requirements, a priestlike devotion to the mission and a cultural self-importance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
Gøtzsche, appropriately, looked nearly priestlike, standing on the stage in all-black.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2020
In Mr. Hardy’s directorial hands, the island and its inhabitants — led by the priestlike Lord Summerisle, played by Christopher Lee, took on a mystifying aura, with bizarre events unfolding in broad daylight.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2016
Snark-hunter Harvey Fergusson has gone at his priestlike task in cold sobriety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, to be on the safe side, I wanted somebody I didn't know and wouldn't go on knowing—a kind of impersonal, priestlike official, as in the tales of tribal rites.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
