Definitions for priests

priests priest

Spelling: [preest]
IPA: /prist/

Priests is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in priests (eiprsst).

Definitions for priests

noun

  1. a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
  2. a person ordained to the sacerdotal or pastoral office; a member of the clergy; minister. (in hierarchical churches) a member of the clergy of the order next below that of bishop, authorized to carry out the Christian ministry.
  3. a minister of any religion.

verb (used with object)

  1. to ordain as a priest.

Origin of priests

before 900; Middle English prest(e), priest, Old English prēost, ultimately Late Latin presbyter presbyter

Examples for priests

I have never been in a land where priests and children were not companions.

Not even the support groups of those abused by priests had the bishop on their priority hit list.

The priests conclude that there is common ground on even the most contentious topics that pit science versus spirituality.

This was after ten years in France when priests and nuns were killed and alters were being desecrated.

They knew very well that this was their Sacred Stone and that the priests had deceived them.

priests often preach support for the regime to their congregations, many of whom loudly dissent.

Do you object to atheism, and yet regard obedience to God as an invention of the priests?

One day he was detected and captured by the priests and made their slave.

Last year the Vatican admitted that it had defrocked 848 priests between 2004 and 2013, without specifying where they are from.

These seigneurs and priests stood together in a common interest.

Word Value for priests
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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