Definition of "priestliest" []

• Superlative form of priestly: most priestly. most priestly. (adjective)

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• "Carlyle has pictured for us his early home at Ecclefechan on the Border; his father, a stone mason of the highest character; his mother with her frugal, pious ways; the minister, from whom he learned Latin, 'the priestliest man I ever beheld in any ecclesiastical guise.'"