clerisy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati. countable,uncountable
    — 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)
  2. The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity. countable,uncountable
    — Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles.

词形变化

clerisies plural

词汇关系

近义词
intelligentsia

词源

From Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros) + -isy. Introduced by Coleridge, based on German Clerisei (modern Klerisei), from Late Latin clēricus.
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