priestessly

comparative more priestessly · superlative most priestessly

1. uncommonOf, pertaining to, or resembling, priestesses.

   More generally, serious rivals are not encouraged to stand, or stay, too close to the priestessly throne.

   1983, Marjorie Ferguson, Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity, Heinemann, page 173

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   And the persons represented in the portraits did not resemble the perfect men or Mahatmas of whom I was in search, though Mrs. Besant had done so to some extent, with her priestessly robes and manner.

   1936, Ernest Egerton Wood, “Fraternity” (chapter V), in "Is This Theosophy...?", London: Rider & Co., page 72