Definitions for hierophant

hierophant hi·er·o·phant

Spelling: [hahy-er-uh-fant, hahy-ruh-, hahy- Hierophant is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 775 anagrams from letters in hierophant (aehhinoprt).

Definitions for hierophant

noun

  1. (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  2. any interpreter of sacred mysteries or esoteric principles; mystagogue.

Origin of hierophant

1670-80; Late Latin hierophanta Greek hierophántēs, equivalent to hiero- hiero- + -phántēs, derivative of phaínein to show, make known

Examples for hierophant

Neither, we are told, did Emerson's, who was leader of men and hierophant.

In the sacraments of Nagualism, Woman was the primate and hierophant.

The hierophant of the sun-god made an effort to climb back on his pedestal.

The part of the hierophant was taken by the false prophet himself.

The hierophant unknotted the bandage over his eyes, 91 and lo!

We still have the prayer of the real Orpheus, which the hierophant recited in the old Greek mysteries.

The hierophant has repented, and is now in black Galilean vestments again!

For the interpretation of Platonic doctrine a hierophant was needed.

The soothsayer looked at the hierophant; the hierophant at the soothsayer.

I'd no right to think anything at all about it, but I know some women take him for a hierophant.

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