clerkship

noun

Definition of clerkshipnext
as in priesthood

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  1. priesthood
  2. monkhood
  3. episcopate
  4. hierarchy
Noun
  • The mainstream church teaches that only men are endowed with priesthood power.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The Qunari military is exclusively composed of men, while women are expected to be craft makers and artisans, and the only gender-neutral niche is their priesthood.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 6 Sep. 2024
Definition of priesthood
Noun
  • Female protest leaders have highlighted the fact that Thailand’s most powerful institutions—the military, the monarchy, and the monkhood—are dominated by men and have little or no place for women.
    Tamara Loos, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Enrolling into monkhood may seem like a novel way of making amends, but the practice has become commonplace in Thailand, especially among people who have caused harm in public ways.
    Time, Time, 29 June 2023
Definition of monkhood
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  • Amicable relations had long existed between the Catholic Church in Rome and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, but the Roman episcopate embraced Mussolini’s regime and its aggressive foreign policy in the mid-1930s.
    Ian Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
  • The selection of Bishop McElroy, whose diocese has never been led by a cardinal, sends a message about the pope’s wish for a more liberal orientation for the U.S. episcopate.
    Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 29 May 2022
Definition of episcopate
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  • The problem in the church is exacerbated given women make up a majority of churchgoers while an all-male hierarchy controls decision making.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
  • That takes us back to folks who believe there’s a genetic hierarchy that’s racially determined.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of hierarchy
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