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clerisy

[ kler-uh-see ]

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of clerisy1

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

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Example Sentences

It also has come under increased attack from among the ranks of the clerisy.

The Clerisy operates on very different principles than its rival power brokers, the oligarchs of finance, technology or energy.

Energy marks the clearest demarcating issues between the plutocrats and the Clerisy.

Much of the U.S. is struggling, but the Clerisy has thrived.

In contrast, the clerisy has little needed for the basically educated, but only an approving claque and faithful servants.

They will scorn him for pronouncing that a 'natural clerisy' is 'an essential element of a rightly constituted nation.'

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