Usually means: Unofficial clergyman, often self-taught.
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  1. hedge-priest: Merriam-Webster
  2. hedge-priest, hedge priest: Wordnik
  3. hedge priest: Wiktionary
  4. Hedge priest: Dictionary.com
  5. Hedge Priest: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. hedge priest: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Hedge priest: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (Christianity, historical) An ignorant itinerant priest.

Similar:
hedge parson, priestling, patrico, hedge creeper, sinhound, hereticaster, shorling, parish prig, hedgebote, higgler, more...

Opposite:
high priest, main priest, chief priest

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Similar:
hedge parson, priestling, patrico, hedge creeper, sinhound, hereticaster, shorling, parish prig, hedgebote, higgler, more...

Opposite:
high priest, main priest, chief priest



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