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clerisy

[ kler-uh-see ]

noun

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


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of clerisy1

1818; < German Klerisei clergy < Medieval Latin ³¦±ôŧ°ù¾±³¦¾±²¹, equivalent to ³¦±ôŧ°ù¾±³¦ ( us ) cleric + -ia -ia; introduced by S.T. Coleridge
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Example Sentences

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When Buddhism was joined to Western science, it would generate its own clerisy and become not a thing of infinite passion but a sort of cult, specifically a cult of expertise.

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Obscurantism enveloped in opacity is the academics’ way of assigning themselves status as members of a closed clerisy indulging in linguistic fads.

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Only those the board licenses are admitted to the clerisy uniquely entitled to publicly discuss engineering.

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Indeed, the point of such ludicrous prose is to signal membership in a closed clerisy that possesses a private language.

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You have never met a more cocksure lot than the monetary-policy clerisy.

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