What's the difference between guru and priest?

Guru


Definition:

  • (n.) A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (2) Senior figures including Lord Prescott, the former deputy prime minister; Lord Glasman, a policy guru; David Blunkett, a former home secretary; andDarling, a former chancellor, have signalled they would like to see Labour setting out its message more clearly.
  • (3) But it was his Olympics win – Freud Communications was appointed as the lead agency in promoting the 2012 games – that prompts the PR guru's rise up this year's MediaGuardian 100.
  • (4) But his intervention comes at a sensitive time for Ed Miliband , who was accused yesterday by his intellectual guru Lord Glasman of lacking a strategy, as members of the shadow cabinet express concern about the party's apparent lack of credibility on the economy.
  • (5) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
  • (6) And religious guru Asaram Bapu suggested that the victim was not blameless, asking provocatively: "Can one hand clap?"
  • (7) The message from the now retired guru of the financial markets was that the speculators would have a field day.
  • (8) In an interview with Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, investment guru and chief of the Berkshire Hathaway investment company, said: "In terms of the loss from a transaction of that size, my guess is they pretty well worked out of it by now.
  • (9) The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford, the disgraced PR guru who was convicted in May of eight counts of indecent assaults on four women.
  • (10) The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, a memoir and political manual first published by Labour's focus group guru, Philip Gould, in 1998, is a book many Cameroons know well.
  • (11) The included Vladimir Bukovsky, a Soviet dissident who lives in Cambridge, whom Marina Litvinenko described as her husband’s “guru”.
  • (12) Going under the name Michael Green and casting himself as an internet marketing guru, Shapps in 2007 claimed audiences could "make $20,000 in 20 days guaranteed or your money back" – if they spent $200 buying his bespoke software.
  • (13) The PR guru Max Clifford said he had been approached by dozens of celebrities from the 60s and 70s who are "frightened to death" that they will be implicated in the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal.
  • (14) Duddy promised to preserve the quality of the retailer, which was started in the 1960s by design guru Sir Terence Conran as an antidote to the austere furniture of postwar Britain.
  • (15) Suneel Singh, a guru in south Delhi, agreed that yoga did not belong to any one religion: “Is t’ai chi just Chinese?
  • (16) The remarks by Flight, an outspoken figure popular in Tory circles, echo an infamous warning 36 years ago by the late Sir Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher's intellectual guru.
  • (17) When I interviewed gourmet coffee guru Gwilym Davies three years ago, shortly before he took the World Barista Championship crown in the US, he told me that we were in the third wave of coffee.
  • (18) Echoing Alan Greenspan, his guru and former chairman of the Federal Reserve, he added: "The very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe.
  • (19) She did ecstasy for the first time with, among others, psychedelic guru Timothy Leary.
  • (20) Shapps, in his guise as the multi-millionaire web guru in charge of the internet marketing company How To Corp, invited three internet entrepreneurs – Harvey Segal, Mani Sivasubramanian and Martin Avis – to Westminster in 2006 for the tour and an evening meal.

Priest


Definition:

  • (n.) A presbyter elder; a minister
  • (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power.
  • (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation.
  • (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.
  • (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is the problem with those who refuse to accept women’s ministry as priests and bishops.
  • (2) Other high-profile speakers include writer and priest Giles Fraser, and the writer Tariq Ali.
  • (3) Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, who last month became the second Church of England priest to marry his same sex partner , said on Twitter that the treatment of Pemberton was "further evidence of the profound homophobia at the heart of the church" .
  • (4) Both Keilloh and Madden face further hearings: the doctor will be examined by a General Medical Council disciplinary tribunal over his role in Iraq and the priest is to be interviewed by the archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley.
  • (5) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
  • (6) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
  • (7) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
  • (8) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (9) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
  • (10) He was happy to dismiss the declarations of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, regarding gay priests, but an apostolic letter written nearly 20 years ago by John Paul II outlining his personal objections to the ordination of women is held to be a "definitive formulation" that is not open to further discussion.
  • (11) Imhotep’s abilities appear to have been extraordinary: other records show he was a doctor and high priest, as well as the king’s chief carpenter, head sculptor, and second-in-command.
  • (12) We have a catastrophe now in Utah with opiate overdoses,” said Dan Snarr, a member of the high priest group leadership within the LDS church whose son, Denver, died of a prescription drug overdose at the age of 25 after becoming hooked on painkillers following a rugby injury.
  • (13) He's now regretting this: "I want to look like a priest, not a protester."
  • (14) In the town of Boali, 60 miles to the north, the Catholic priest Xavier-Arnauld Fagba went from house to house and into the bush to offer Muslims sanctuary in his church .
  • (15) The church had already been under fire over the sexual misbehaviour of several priests in various Irish parishes.
  • (16) Since it started I have had claims from four other people that this priest abused them.
  • (17) Some of the women priests appeared to have sourced phone cases to match the colour of their clerical robes.
  • (18) Two men were charged in connection with Grafton Close, including Catholic priest Father Anthony McSweeney, who was found guilty and jailed for three years .
  • (19) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
  • (20) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.

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