Hierarchate
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of hierarchy.
"At first, when the demagoguery, the abasement, the small lying had its reverberation in other small lies and ultimate threats in the form of requests and suggestions among the hierarchate of the Church and he received the call to Jefferson, he forgot how he had got it for the time."
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More examples"At first, when the demagoguery, the abasement, the small lying had its reverberation in other small lies and ultimate threats in the form of requests and suggestions among the hierarchate of the Church and he received the call to Jefferson, he forgot how he had got it for the time."
Etymology
From hierarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, an associated body of people).
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