"power" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The clergy's colossal efforts to educate the peasants resulted in the relative loss of priestly power.
- My first reflection is, That superstition is favourable to priestly power, and enthusiasm not less or rather more contrary to it, than sound reason and philosophy.
- This appears to be the origin of monarchical and priestly power, and the dawn of civilization.
- For that matter, there was even some evidence that Karse had been using magic, under the guise of "priestly powers."
- Boswell adds a tantalising footnote: 'This is a species of priestly power, and sometimes may be abused.
- Declines to set up any pretensions to priestly authority and priestly power.
- Those who have received the dispensation are allowed to marry and otherwise live as laymen, but still retain priestly powers.
- The two clearest examples of traditional power are the cases of kingly power and priestly power.
- To elevate priestly power to lead or direct the life of men in the world was only one side of the clerical ambition.
- Augustus was personally vested with an extraordinary breadth of political, military and priestly powers; at first temporarily, then for his lifetime.
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