priestcraft
英 ['priːs(t)krɑːft]
美['pristkræft]
- n. 神职者的谋略；祭司的本领
英英释义
- 1. a derogatory reference to priests who use their influence to control secular or political affairs
- 2. the skills involved in the work of a priest
双语例句
- 1. A fine girl is worth all the priestcraft in the creation.
- 一个美女子,比世界上什么宗教把戏都好.
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英文词源
- priestcraft (n.)
- late 15c., "business of being a priest," from priest + craft (n.). After rise of Protestantism and the Enlightenment, it acquired a pejorative sense of "arts and devices of ambitious priests for attaining and holding temporal power and social control" (1680s).