词族 · priestcraft
词形变化
英语词源
- 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).
权威例句
- 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.