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Definition of clerisy in English: clerisynoun ˈklɛrɪsiˈklerəsē usually treated as plural Learned or literary people regarded as a social group or class. the clerisy are those who read for pleasure treated as singular he makes Coleridge's ambitions for a clerisy exclusively conservative Example sentencesExamples - Yet their idea of the social community was not itself religious; it had no specific theology or clerisy to give it determinate shape.
- It helps defuse the self-serving pomposity of much of the journalistic clerisy.
- Further he is a poet, and one who lives in a country where the majority of the populace are not of his culture, so that his poems are necessarily written for an absent clerisy.
- Such moments have, for the most part, been reserved in this book for the loners whose poems unequivocally evade the inhibiting classifications of the author's grum-bummed clerisy.
- What he wants is a tame clerisy as well as tame courts, legislators, and news media.
- The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society.
- It reads rather like a candidate's essay for entry to membership of the US academic inner clerisy via an elaborately obscure text on an almost impenetrably dull topic.
- However, he did discuss in a few writings, albeit briefly, his notion of a clerisy, a doctrine common in the nineteenth century.
- Indeed, more than a few members of the South's clerisy openly admitted that the revolt had forced them into a more self-conscious inquiry into the institution of slavery itself.
- In Britain, his main gripes were spreading suburbia, neglected defences, and the rise of a pliant state-educated clerisy.
- The skills of working practitioners are found in constant dialogue with the theoretical wisdom of the clerisy.
Origin Early 19th century: apparently influenced by German Klerisei, based on Greek klēros 'heritage' (see cleric). Definition of clerisy in US English: clerisynounˈklerəsē usually treated as plural A distinct class of learned or literary people. the clerisy are those who read for pleasure Example sentencesExamples - Such moments have, for the most part, been reserved in this book for the loners whose poems unequivocally evade the inhibiting classifications of the author's grum-bummed clerisy.
- Indeed, more than a few members of the South's clerisy openly admitted that the revolt had forced them into a more self-conscious inquiry into the institution of slavery itself.
- However, he did discuss in a few writings, albeit briefly, his notion of a clerisy, a doctrine common in the nineteenth century.
- Further he is a poet, and one who lives in a country where the majority of the populace are not of his culture, so that his poems are necessarily written for an absent clerisy.
- It helps defuse the self-serving pomposity of much of the journalistic clerisy.
- It reads rather like a candidate's essay for entry to membership of the US academic inner clerisy via an elaborately obscure text on an almost impenetrably dull topic.
- In Britain, his main gripes were spreading suburbia, neglected defences, and the rise of a pliant state-educated clerisy.
- What he wants is a tame clerisy as well as tame courts, legislators, and news media.
- Yet their idea of the social community was not itself religious; it had no specific theology or clerisy to give it determinate shape.
- The skills of working practitioners are found in constant dialogue with the theoretical wisdom of the clerisy.
- The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society.
Origin Early 19th century: apparently influenced by German Klerisei, based on Greek klēros ‘heritage’ (see cleric). |