Meaning of priest-king | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sacred king, a monarch with prominent religious attributes.
2. A theocrat, a sovereign high priest.

Examples

“The while this Priest-King sacrifiz'd To's clov'n-foot God in Bethel (self-devis'd).”

“The beginnings of organized war, first as a bickering between villages, and then as a more disciplined struggle between the priest-king and god of one city and those of another.”

“Lower Egypt throws off the yoke of the priest-Kings of Thebes.”

“He was more like a priest-king, a combination of the Pope and a constitutional monarch.”

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