sacerdocyn.
/ˈsasədəʊsi/ (a) The sacerdotal character, spirit, or system. (b) A priestly function or office.
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priesthoodOE
sanctuaryc1380
priestheada1400
priestdom1528
priestship1584
flamenship1600
sacerdotala1640
sacerdocya1706
long robe1762
sacerdoce1829
priestism1842
sacerdotalism1847
sacerdotium1931
a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. viii. 21 And so it continued till the Levitical sacerdocy was fixed and confined to Aaron and his posterity.
1843 C. Wordsworth Theoph. Angl. (1850) 167 Let him [sc. the Bishop] make restitution..lest under pretext of sacerdocy the pride of power should creep in.
1844 R. M. Beverley Church Eng. Examined (ed. 2) 101 He held true and real Levitical sacerdocy to be a constituent part of the clerical character.
1851 Ecclesiologist XII. 274 The sacerdocy of the whole machine being an emanation from the vagaries of a Presbyterian preacher.
1877 Mrs. Chapman H. Martineau's Autobiog. III. 78 Literature remained ever to her a Sacerdocy.
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