"priest-ridden" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From priest + -ridden.",
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      "form": "more priest-ridden",
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          "ref": "1691, William Carr, An Accurate Description of the United Netherlands, and of the Most Considerable Parts of Germany, Sweden, & Denmark, London: Timothy Childe, page 83:",
          "text": "Cologne […] is much decayed within these Hundred Years, having been much Priest-ridden; a Misfortune that hath undone many other great Cities. The Jesuits have had so great Influence upon the Magistrates, that they prevailed with them to banish all Protestants […]",
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          "text": "1726, William Rufus Chetwood, The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, London: J. Watts, 3rd edition, 1735, p. 150,\nThe Father finding the Man had too much Understanding to be Priest-ridden, thought it his best way to hold his Tongue."
        },
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          "ref": "1873, Bret Harte, “The Adventure of Padre Vicentio”, in Mrs. Skaggs’s Husbands, and Other Sketches, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 302:",
          "text": "[…] Padre Vicentio incautiously drove his heavy spurs into the flanks of his mule as that puzzled animal was hesitating on the brink of a steep declivity. Whether the poor beast was indignant at this novel outrage, or had been for some time reflecting on the evils of being priest-ridden, has not transpired; enough that he suddenly threw up his heels, pitching the reverend man over his head, and, having accomplished this feat, coolly dropped on his knees and tumbled after his rider.",
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          "text": "We are an unfortunately priestridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter.",
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        "Dominated or plagued by priests."
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          "text": "1726, William Rufus Chetwood, The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, London: J. Watts, 3rd edition, 1735, p. 150,\nThe Father finding the Man had too much Understanding to be Priest-ridden, thought it his best way to hold his Tongue."
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          "text": "[…] Padre Vicentio incautiously drove his heavy spurs into the flanks of his mule as that puzzled animal was hesitating on the brink of a steep declivity. Whether the poor beast was indignant at this novel outrage, or had been for some time reflecting on the evils of being priest-ridden, has not transpired; enough that he suddenly threw up his heels, pitching the reverend man over his head, and, having accomplished this feat, coolly dropped on his knees and tumbled after his rider.",
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