hierarchismn.
Hierarchical practice and principles; hierarchical system.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of ecclesiastics
hierarchy1563
hierocracy1794
parsonarchy1830
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > hierarchy > [noun]
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hierocracy1794
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hierarchism1846
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Kelly).
1854 C. C. J. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind II. 141 She establishes Catholic hierarchism without its hierarchical independence in reference to the State.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. viii. 565 The more dominant hierarchism of the West is manifest in the oppugnancy between Greek and Latin Church Architecture.
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