clerisy

[ kler-uh-see ]

noun
  1. learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia.

Origin of clerisy

1
1818; <German Klerisei clergy <Medieval Latin clēricia, equivalent to clēric(us) cleric + -ia-ia; introduced by S.T. Coleridge

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