clericity
clericity
(kləˈrɪsɪtɪ)n
the condition of being a clergyman
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Clerisy, Clericity
learned men as a body; scholars, 1818.Example: the clerisy of a nation, that is its learned men, whether poets, or philosophers, or scholars, 1834.
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