priesting

From priest +‎ -ing.

priesting (usually uncountable, plural priestings)

1. (rare) The ordination of a priest.
   • 2017, Jeremy Morris, The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV:

     Methodists remained unimpressed by the tortuous path that its Covenant partner had taken towards allowing women into the episcopate (finally achieved in 2014, twenty years after the first priestings of women and fourteen years after the synodical process began).

2. (obsolete) The office of a priest.
   • 1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy:

     “My Son,” saith he, “honour God & the King ; but I say, honour God and the bishop as high-priest, bearing the image of God according to his ruling, and of Christ, according to his priesting, and after him honour the king.”

priesting

1. present participle and gerund of priest

• respiting