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Prelacy

noun
(pl. prelacies)
1.
Prelates collectively.  Synonym: prelature.
2.
The office or station of a prelate.  Synonym: prelature.





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"Prelacy" Quotes from Famous Books



... had cause to think with regret of the persuasive eloquence of the Archbishop of Cambray, of the sacred Art that could make truth lovely to wayward youth, and religion beautiful to hard and skeptical manhood. Has it not sometimes seemed as if ambitious prelacy had forgotten the purer example for the baser, and copied Bossuet's pride instead of Fenelon's charity? Nay, has not priestly assumption coveted the talons and forgotten the wings of the Eagle of Meaux and lost sight wholly of the Dove of Cambray? What government ...
— Gifts of Genius - A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors • Various


Words linked to "Prelacy" :   post, place, spot, prelature, office, billet, berth, situation, clergy, position


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