Definition of "hierarchs" [hierarchs]

• Plural form of hierarch. (noun)

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• "For the article that described scientists as calling for anti-pollution measures, people had quite opposite reactions: for communitarians and egalitarians, it increased their perception of the risk from global warming, but for individualists and hierarchs, it decreased their perception of the risk."
• "In all cases, the mean risk assessment of the subjects correlates with their position on these dimensions: individualists and hierarchs are much less worried about global warming than communitarians and egalitarians."
• "Many Catholics believe the hierarchs are getting sloppy as they grapple with the problem of their waning leverage."