priestcraft

英 ['priːs(t)krɑːft]美 ['pristkræft]

n. 神职者的谋略；祭司的本领

英文词源

priestcraft (n.)

late 15c., "business of being a priest," from priest + craft (n.). After rise of Protestantism and the Enlightenment, it acquired a pejorative sense of "arts and devices of ambitious priests for attaining and holding temporal power and social control" (1680s).

双语例句

1. A fine girl is worth all the priestcraft in the creation.

一个美女子,比世界上什么宗教把戏都好.

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