Definition of Hierophants

1. Noun. (plural of hierophant) ¹

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Definition of Hierophants

1. hierophant [n] - See also: hierophant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hierophants

hierologies
hierologist
hierologists
hierology
hieromancy
hieromania
hieromonk
hieromonks
hieron
hierons
hieronymite
hierophanies
hierophant
hierophantic
hierophantically
hierophants (current term)
hierophany
hierophobia
hieroscopy
hierotheca
hierothecae
hierotherapy
hierourgy
hierurgies
hierurgy
hies
hifalutin
hig-taper
higab
higashi

Literary usage of Hierophants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late by Thomas Jefferson (1829)
"The preacher might be excluded by our hierophants from their churches and meetinghouses, but would be attended in the fields by the whole acres of hearers ..."

2. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"All these hierophants and Initiates were types of the Sun and of the Creative Principle (spiritual potency) as were Vishvakarma and ligion and Science, p. ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1816)
"Yet the hierophants could not but remark, that, although Noah was born from the ark, he nevertheless existed before it, and even produced it; ..."

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