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单词 hierarch
释义

Definition of hierarch in English:

hierarch

noun ˈhʌɪərɑːkˈhaɪ(ə)ˌrɑrk
  • A chief priest, archbishop, or other leader.

    教主,大主教;首领

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Certainly there have been notable Orthodox hierarchs in this country and abroad, many of them Russians, whose vision of Orthodoxy and its catholic mission was a resplendent one.
    • A postulant who wishes to enter the spiritual life has a sponsor who presents him to the hierarch.
    • There is a mosaic in Ravenna portraying saints, martyrs, hierarchs, and faithful laity, each of them holding a crown that they will place at the feet of Christ.
    • The works of their most respected theologians and thinkers are not only still unavailable in most of Russia's seminaries, but are also viewed by many hierarchs as heretical.
    • Thirteen bishops of Great Russian origin and merely two Ukrainian hierarchs were consecrated in the 1760s.
    • Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas.

Origin

Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhēs, from hieros 'sacred' + arkhēs 'ruler'.

Rhymes

squirearch

Definition of hierarch in US English:

hierarch

nounˈhī(ə)ˌrärkˈhaɪ(ə)ˌrɑrk
  • A chief priest, archbishop, or other leader.

    教主,大主教;首领

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A postulant who wishes to enter the spiritual life has a sponsor who presents him to the hierarch.
    • Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas.
    • Thirteen bishops of Great Russian origin and merely two Ukrainian hierarchs were consecrated in the 1760s.
    • The works of their most respected theologians and thinkers are not only still unavailable in most of Russia's seminaries, but are also viewed by many hierarchs as heretical.
    • There is a mosaic in Ravenna portraying saints, martyrs, hierarchs, and faithful laity, each of them holding a crown that they will place at the feet of Christ.
    • Certainly there have been notable Orthodox hierarchs in this country and abroad, many of them Russians, whose vision of Orthodoxy and its catholic mission was a resplendent one.

Origin

Late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek hierarkhēs, from hieros ‘sacred’ + arkhēs ‘ruler’.

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