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priest-king

noun

Etymology

From priest + king.

  1. inherited from kyngen — “to perform the duties of a king”
  2. inherited from kyngen
  3. inherited from *kuningaz✻
  4. inherited from *kuning✻
  5. inherited from cyng
  6. inherited from king
  7. compounded as priest-king — “priest + king”

Definitions

  1. A sacred king, a monarch with prominent religious attributes.

    • The while this Priest-King sacrifiz'd To's clov'n-foot God in Bethel (self-devis'd).
    • The beginnings of organized war, first as a bickering between villages, and then as a more disciplined struggle between the priest-king and god of one city and those of another.

  2. A theocrat, a sovereign high priest.

    • Lower Egypt throws off the yoke of the priest-Kings of Thebes.
    • He was more like a priest-king, a combination of the Pope and a constitutional monarch.

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