priesting — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The ordination of a priest.

   Gebrauch

   • selten
   • nicht zählbar
   • usually

   Beispiele

   I’m never unmoved by a priesting and I found myself thinking a lot about the power to bind and loose which is bestowed at ordination.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   Methodists remained unimpressed by the tortuous path that its Covenant partner had taken towards allowing women into the episcopate (finally achieved in 2014, twenty years after the first priestings of women and fourteen years after the synodical process began).

2. The office of a priest.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • nicht zählbar
   • usually

   Beispiele

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   “My Son,” saith he, “honour God & the King ; but I say, honour God and the bishop as high-priest, bearing the image of God according to his ruling, and of Christ, according to his priesting, and after him honour the king.”