Usage examples for sacerdotalism:

• The majority of these men have wholly lost the flavour of sacerdotalism "A Book of Prefaces" – H. L. Mencken

• In his enumeration of the various methods by which he was going to mark his aloofness from the sacerdotalism of the Established Church, he wrote; " I shall wear no clothes, to distinguish me from my fellow- Christians." "Collections and Recollections" – George William Erskine Russell

• It is very significant that the mystics, who had undermined sacerdotalism and in many other ways prepared the Reformation, were shouldered aside when the secession from Rome had to be organised. "Christian Mysticism" – William Ralph Inge