high-priesthood

Noun

Meaning

The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.

Examples

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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