A belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God.
Roget 988:
impiety;
sin
etc.
945;
irreverence;
profaneness
etc.
adj.;
profanity,
profanation;
blasphemy,
desecration,
sacrilege;
scoffing
etc.
v..
[feigned piety]
hypocrisy
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
pietism,
cant,
pious fraud;
lip devotion,
lip service,
lip reverence;
misdevotion†,
formalism,
austerity;
sanctimony,
sanctimoniousness
etc.
adj.;
pharisaism,
precisianism†;
sabbatism†,
sabbatarianism†;
odium theologicum [Lat.],
sacerdotalism†;
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606,
(prejudice)
481;
blue laws.
hardening,
backsliding,
declension,
perversion,
reprobation.
sinner
etc.
949;
scoffer,
blasphemer;
sacrilegist†;
sabbath breaker;
worldling;
hypocrite
etc.
(dissembler)
548;
Tartufe†,
Mawworm†.
bigot;
saint [Iron.];
Pharisee;
sabbatarian†,
formalist,
methodist,
puritan,
pietist†,
precisian†,
religionist,
devotee;
ranter,
fanatic,
juramentado†.
the wicked,
the evil,
the unjust,
the reprobate;
sons of men,
sons of Belial,
the wicked one;
children of darkness.
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Roget 995:
church,
churchdom;
ministry,
apostleship†,
priesthood,
prelacy,
hierarch†,
church government,
christendom,
pale of the church.
clericalism,
sacerdotalism†,
episcopalianism,
ultramontanism†;
theocracy;
ecclesiology†,
ecclesiologist†;
priestcraft†,
odium theologicum [Lat.].
monachism†,
monachy†;
monasticism,
monkhood†.
[Ecclesiastical offices and dignities]
pontificate,
primacy,
archbishopric†,
archiepiscopacy†;
prelacy;
bishopric,
bishopdom†;
episcopate,
episcopacy;
see,
diocese;
deanery,
stall;
canonry,
canonicate†;
prebend,
prebendaryship†;
benefice,
incumbency,
glebe,
advowson†,
living,
cure;
rectorship†;
vicariate,
vicarship;
deaconry†,
deaconship†;
curacy;
chaplain,
chaplaincy,
chaplainship;
cardinalate,
cardinalship†;
abbacy,
presbytery.
holy orders,
ordination,
institution,
consecration,
induction,
reading in,
preferment,
translation,
presentation.
popedom†;
the Vatican,
the apostolic see;
religious sects
etc.
984.
council
etc.
696;
conclave,
convocation,
synod,
consistory,
chapter,
vestry;
sanhedrim,
conge d'elire [Fr.];
ecclesiastical courts,
consistorial court,
court of Arches.
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