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Clerisy
//ˈklɛɹɪsi// noun
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Noun
- 1 An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati. countable, uncountable
"2003: By the nineteenth-century clerisy […] Christianity itself, yoked to material civilization, came to be questioned as gross and vulgar. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 432)"
- 2 an educated and intellectual elite wordnet
- 3 The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity. countable, uncountable
"Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros) + -isy. Introduced by Coleridge, based on German Clerisei (modern Klerisei), from Late Latin clēricus.
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