NOUN
- the skills involved in the work of a priest
- a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs
How To Use priestcraft In A Sentence
- He’s engaged in priestcraft, using God to make money. Butt out « BuzzMachine
- I feel that it is not necessary for me to go further to convince any one of my readers that the lustfulness of the priestcraft is a menace to the chastity of womankind, for if this nun has told the truth, and which I know from past experiences is true, and which I also know is a recital that could be intensified ten thousand times over, if the whole truth could be told, but which cannot be told in this volume, as I have too much respect for my readers to recite what I have seen with my own eyes and what I have had repeated to me by broken-hearted "sisters" who have come to me with tears in their eyes and with sighs in their throats to tell me of their miseries. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
- Most of their priestcraft was a vulgar imposition upon the ignorance and credulity of the common people. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
- If they had, I should have suspected "priestcraft" and forgeries and third-century Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- But they could not control the everyday behaviour of soldiers who knew from years of experience, at home and abroad, that priestcraft was the most persistent and insidious enemy of the Revolution.
- The errors and superstitions of other days are vanishing before the influence of cause and effect; and mankind generally can never again be led away by the bewilderments of superstition or of priestcraft.
- A sincere lover of religion, he was an abhorrer of all that he esteemed priestcraft; of all profanation, he held it to be the worst. Things By Their Right Names
- And if the sense of self-alienation arises out of fraud and priestcraft, or if it amounts to no more than neurosis, then certainly to be done with it would be a grand liberation.
- In Florence, too, the hell-on-earth created by priestcraft is coarsely and pungently denounced: young Vespucci capers happily around the pyre on the day that Savonarola is burned and the reign of clerical puritan terror brought to a close. Cassocks and Codpieces
- Here, if any where, the cloven foot shows itself and teaches us that the only solid stratum underlying priestcraft is one composed of £ s. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
