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.    ... meer laten zien

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.    ... meer laten zien

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