Definition of "hierophants" [hierophants]

• Plural form of hierophant. (noun)

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• "Globe and Mail and the CBC continue to pay Rex Murphy to use words like "hierophants" in an effort to appear learned on an infinite number of sujects, including climatology."
• "Not everybody thinks songwriters are today's version of the poets who Shelley Percy Bysshe, not Fabares or Winters said were "hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present ... unacknowledged legislators of the world.""
• "They had long hair and wore dirty rags and they stank, for hierophants of Wildfire are forbidden to wash."