Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

priestery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: priestery
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Priests collectively; the priesthood.

Derogatory; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"What greater argument of disgrace and ignominy could have been thrown with cunning upon the whole clergy, than that the king, among all his priestery, and all those numberless volumes of their theological distillations not meeting with one man or book of that coat that could befriend him with a prayer in captivity, was forced to rob Sir Philip and his captive shepherdess of their heathen orisons to supply in any fashion his miserable indigence, not of bread, but of a single prayer to God?"

Etymology

From priest + -ery.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: priest

Usage

Inflected Forms

priesteries (plural)

Questions

What does priestery mean?: Priests collectively; the priesthood.
Where does priestery come from?: From priest + -ery.

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