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religious leader

n. 1 A religious leader is one who is recognised by a religious body as having some authority within that body. 2 The leader of a religious order. 3 In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, Cardinals, Bishops, and the Supreme Pontiff.

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religious leader

n. leader of a religious order

Usage examples of "religious leader".

You will in point of fact hardly find a religious leader of any kind in whose life there is no record of automatisms.

From Qum, the Ayatolla Daryaei, the religious leader of Iran and long an enemy of everything Americans did, railed against all unbelievers, consigning each and every one to his personal version of hell, but translation made understanding difficult for American viewers, and his grandiloquent ranting was cut short.

Now he was an orator and statesman of the highest order: a king, politician, religious leader, and military commander all wrapped in one charismatic package.

As he had for hours, the religious leader Rhengalid gazed at him with stony eyes and implacable refusal.

Not as a religious leader, not as the fulfillment of prophecy, not even as a politician or diplomat, but as a soldier whose whole life has been dedicated to fighting where necessary, and preserving life and peace where possible.

In due course, the representative arrived at the modest private home of a friend of the local religious leader.

Like every religious leader in history, he knew that a good society started with a stable home, and that stable homeseither by design or accidentwere usually founded on the disciplined sexual relationship of one man and one woman joined after due consideration of the world's accumulated judgment on such matters.

Like every religious leader in history, he knew that a good society started with a stable home, and that stable homes—.

Led by pirate-eyed Heinar, as well as the Sayyadina of the sietch -- a female religious leader much like a Reverend Mother -- the wedding party came down from the mountains after a long and careful journey and out onto the open sands rippled with dunes.

You see, and I urge you to take another drink right now, every religious leader in human history has been a member of the Cult of the Yellow Sign and all their efforts are devoted to hoaxing, deluding and enslaving the rest of us.