clerisy

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noun

Plural noun:

clerisies

1.
(countable, uncountable)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)
2016: Only the highly educated write so badly. Indeed, the point of such ludicrous prose is to signal membership in a closed clerisy that possesses a private language. — George F. Will, Washington Post, 18 Nov, 2016
2022: We invent ourselves as American writers—it's not a clerisy we’re born into... — Edward Hirsch, The Heart of American Poetry (Library of America, 2022)
2.
(countable, uncountable)The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.

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From grc:κλῆρος + --isy. Introduced by Coleridge, based on German Clerisei (modern Klerisei), from clēricus.