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What is another word for priesthoods?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈiːsthʊdz] (IPA)

Priesthoods refer to the office or position of a priest, and there are a variety of synonyms that can be used to describe it. For example, the term clergy often refers to a group of people who are authorized to lead religious services and perform other religious duties. Another synonym for priesthoods is ordination, which refers to the process of becoming a priest or other religious leader. The term hierarchy may also be used to describe the system of priests and other religious leaders within a particular religion or organization. Overall, there are many different words that can be used to describe priesthoods, each with its own distinct connotations and meanings.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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    Religious Leadership.

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  • When you look at organised religion of whatever sort — whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism — wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.
    Philip Pullman
  • Medicine, guarded too by preliminary impediments, and frightful medusa-heads of quackery, which deter many generous souls from entering, is of the half-articulate professions, and does not much invite the ardent kinds of ambition. The intellect required for medicine might be wholly human, and indeed should by all rules be,—the profession of the Human Healer being radically a sacred one and connected with the highest priesthoods, or rather being itself the outcome and acme of all priesthoods, and divinest conquests of intellect here below. As will appear one day, when men take off their old monastic and ecclesiastic spectacles, and look with eyes again! In essence the Physician's task is always heroic, eminently human: but in practice most unluckily at present we find it too become in good part beaverish,—yielding a money-result alone. And what of it is not beaverish,—does not that too go mainly to ingenious talking, publishing of yourself, ingratiating of yourself; a partly human exercise or waste of intellect, and, alas, a partly vulpine ditto;—making the once sacred... Human Healer, more impossible for us than ever!
    Thomas Carlyle

Related words: priesthood, priesthoods and women, priesthood of god, priesthood of all believers, priesthood office, who can become a priest

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