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clerisies

clerisies is the plural of clerisy.

Meaning of clerisy

Noun

clerisy (countable and uncountable, plural clerisies)

  1. An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati.
    • 2003: By the nineteenth-century clerisy […] Christianity itself, yoked to material civilization, came to be questioned as gross and vulgar. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 432)
    Synonyms:
    intelligentsia
  2. The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
    • Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles.1986, Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow, Classics Revisited, page 174

Questions about clerisies

What is clerisies the plural of?
Clerisies is the plural of clerisy.

Words near clerisies in the dictionary

  1. clerics
  2. clerid
  3. clerids
  4. clerihew
  5. clerihews
  6. clerisies
  7. clerisy
  8. clerite
  9. Clerith
  10. clerk
  11. Clerk of the Closet

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