priest-king
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A theocrat, a sovereign high priest.
Example Sentences
- "The while this Priest-King sacrifiz'd To's clov'n-foot God in Bethel (self-devis'd)."
- "The beginnings of organized war, first as a bickering between villages, and then as a more disciplined struggle between the priest-king and god of one city and those of another."
- "Lower Egypt throws off the yoke of the priest-Kings of Thebes."
- "He was more like a priest-king, a combination of the Pope and a constitutional monarch."