clerkly

[klurk-lee, klahrk-lee]

adjective

clerklier, clerkliest 

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a clerk.

2. Archaic.,  scholarly.

adverb

1. in the manner of a clerk.

clerkly

/ ˈklɑːklɪ /

adjective

1. of or like a clerk

2. obsolete,  learned

adverb

1. obsolete,  in the manner of a clerk

Other Word Forms

• clerkliness noun
• unclerkly adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of clerkly¹

First recorded in 1400–50, clerkly is from the late Middle English word clerkli. See clerk, -ly

Example Sentences

District Judge Keith Ellison issued a preliminary injunction Thursday night calling for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to provide the items at the Pack Unit, where 62-year-old Leonard Clerkly had been incarcerated.

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Clerkly died Saturday at a local hospital after testing positive for the virus.

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And yet we are all in it together; the peasantification of clerkdom goes hand in hand with the replacement of drudge work by machines or by knowledge work – clerkly work.

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The clerkly class of today is made up of academics, thinktankers, lawyers, writers, many artists, scientists, journalists and students, some comedians and politicians, even some entrepreneurs, as well as actual clerics – anyone whose sense of self depends on an abstract frame of reference.

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I hadn’t realised how deeply the ancient sense of proprietorship by the powerful over the depiction of love was embedded in literary, that is clerkly, English.

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