Priesting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Priesting is a noun meaning present participle and gerund of priest.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of priest.
More Meanings
- (rare) The ordination of a priest.
- (obsolete) The office of a priest.
Example Sentences
I’m never unmoved by a priesting and I found myself thinking a lot about the power to bind and loose which is bestowed at ordination.
“My Son,” saith he, “honour God & the King ; but I say, honour God and the bishop as high-priest, bearing the image of God according to his ruling, and of Christ, according to his priesting, and after him honour the king.”
Methodists remained unimpressed by the tortuous path that its Covenant partner had taken towards allowing women into the episcopate (finally achieved in 2014, twenty years after the first priestings of women and fourteen years after the synodical process began).
Word Forms
- priestings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include proto-priest, protopriest, praepositus, foreordination, prebendship, prelatry.
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