The Collaborative International Dictionary
Priestliness
Priestliness \Priest"li*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being priestly.
--R. Browning.
Wiktionary
priestliness
n. The state or quality of being like a priest.
Usage examples of "priestliness".
His unwearying devotion gained the admiration of all, no matter how little inclined one might be to view priestliness generally with favor.
Of the priestliness I have encountered, I can not determine whether the worse belonged to the Church of England or a certain body of Dissenters.