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clerically

clerically adverb: in a clerical manner; as a cleric.

Adverb

clerically (comparative more clerically, superlative most clerically)

  1. In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
    • This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,—-could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy?1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson
    • Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown

Forms of clerically

comparativemore clerically
superlativemost clerically

Origin of clerically

From clerical + -ly.

Questions about clerically

What does clerically mean?
Clerically means in a clerical manner; as a cleric.
What part of speech is clerically?
Clerically is an adverb.

Words near clerically in the dictionary

  1. clericalization
  2. clericalize
  3. clericalized
  4. clericalizes
  5. clericalizing
  6. clerically
  7. clericals
  8. clericate
  9. clericates
  10. clericature
  11. Clerici solution

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