Definition of "priest-ridden" []

• Dominated or plagued by priests. (adjective)

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• "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government."
• "I believe it to be true, as some say, that we are now as much law-ridden as we were priest-ridden some ages ago."
• "Here the American comic atheist rises up: unencumbered, disenthralled, in rude existential health, not huddled palely in some priest-ridden twilight but soaking up the UV of reality."