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• a  befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood

• Her only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests' whims.
• Since poets generally discarded their priestlike function for that of self-mindreaders, women have flocked to join the profession and some of them have gone to the head, or near .
• Taking his title from Keats ("The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores").

• priestly

• unpriestly

Quotes

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• Mark Rylance in Times Online
  Teenagers gather round him in a place where there's nothing better to do. He's a sort of hierophant, a priestlike figure who interprets sacred mysteries, an initiator of young people,Rylance says. "Sometimes they go through a rite of...