nonpriestly

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adjective

Not priestly.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivenonpriestly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot priestly.

    The Pharisees were mostly laymen; to some extent they were antipriestly. The group was under the direction of nonpriestly scribes.

    1984, Hugo Echegaray, The Practice of Jesus, page 51

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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