clericality

• a word derived from clerical.
  clerical

  adjective

  of, pertaining to, appropriate for, or assigned to an office clerk or clerks.

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clericality

And indeed clericality does, at all times, stand in a very close relation to the feminine heart; that's why "hearts" formerly meant the clergy on German playing cards.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

Yet the monotone of Mr. Beadon's clericality had once been illuminated when he had broken that vow of celibacy to which he had attached such importance in order to marry Mrs. Beadon.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

Related Words

• ecclesiastical
• ministerial
• monastic
• pastoral
• rabbinical