Definition of Religious leader

1. Noun. Leader of a religious order.


Definition of Religious leader

1. Noun. A religious leader is one who is recognised by a religious body as having some authority within that body. ¹

2. Noun. The leader of a religious order. ¹

3. Noun. In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, Cardinals, Bishops, and the Supreme Pontiff. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Leader

religiophobia
religiophobic
religiopolitical
religiose
religiosities
religiosity
religious
religious-pluralism
religious belief
religious ceremony
religious cult
religious doctrine
religious education
religious festival
religious holiday
religious leader (current term)
religious movement
religious music
religious mystic
religious mysticism
religious naturalism
religious naturalist
religious naturalists
religious offering
religious order
religious orders
religious orientation
religious outcast
religious person
religious philosophies

Literary usage of Religious leader

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Missionary Review of the World (1917)
"A MONGOLIAN religious leader-AN OLD LAMA IN URGA Buddha whose debaucheries are notorious throughout the length and breadth of the land. ..."

2. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated by William Warburton (1837)
"... useful, it seems hard to conceive, that the religious leader of the Jews, because as a late- giver he could do without it, that therefore, as a divine, ..."

3. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Ojibwa children played at being curers but only through the choice of the manitos did one become a religious leader. Parents helped their children to become ..."

4. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Ojibwa children played at being curers but only through the choice of the manitos did one become a religious leader. Parents helped their children to become ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"religious teacher than to the doctor, we should be led to urge the importance of the function of the religious leader as an interpreter to the physician, ..."

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