2[countableC usually singular, uncountableU]RR all the priests of a particular religion or country 〔某一宗教或国家的〕全体神职人员
an attempt to reduce the influence of the priesthood in the country
削弱国内神职人员影响力的努力
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priesthood• the Babylonian priesthood• His illegitimateson Cesare had difficulty in being accepted for the priesthood until granteddispensation.• Also during the summer months, one of the Diocesan students for the priesthood came to Lartington on placement.• He would know that smell anywhere, having lived off that particular soup during his early years in the priesthood.• Biscop Baducing was born into a noble family, then was ordained into the priesthood at the age of twenty-five.• I decided that my mission was to convince Dennis to leave the priesthood.• I believe women ought to be ordained to the priesthood.• As a young man, with the priesthood still a distantdream, Hughes had gone ahead of his people.• While Bourdieu's self-deprecatory claims to priesthood and orthodoxy turn out to be a cover for a very avant-gardesociology of culture.