A sacerdotal atmosphere pervades this old-line family bank, where the very notion of risk is verboten, where rumors and hot tips are considered unseemly

a sacerdotal signification

To become a sacerdotal offering, very much like those pale schoolteachers in Latin America, men from the poor villages, sweating in their black suits and white shirts, receiving and giving a peculiar list of punishments in their visionary calling.

had led her to consider Mr. van der Luyden’s least gesture as having an almost sacerdotal importance.

I knew that if I mentioned his name there would flash in the eyes of each of them the same sacerdotal alarm