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Definition of Hierophants
1. hierophant [n] - See also: hierophant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hierophants
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; ..."