priest-ridden
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Except poor priest-ridden Mary, who had a Spanish mother and a Spanish husband, they did not brook control, and no one was ever more conscious of being a king than Henry VIII.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
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 Gordon Casserly
Then I said I was informed that there was a reaction against the Church in Ireland, against being what American Protestants call "priest-ridden."
From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell
The earliest notice that we have of them speaks of their liberality to the clergy; yet with all this religious conservatism they have never allowed themselves to be priest-ridden.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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