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Meaning of "clerisy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CLERISY

clerisy  [ˈklɛrɪsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLERISY

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Clerisy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CLERISY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

clerisy

Intellectual

An intellectual is a person who primarily uses intelligence in either a professional or an individual capacity. As a substantive or adjective, it refers to the work product of such persons, to the so-called "life of the mind" generally, or to an aspect of something where learning, erudition, and informed and critical thinking are the focus. Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva. The intellectual is a specific variety of the intelligent, which unlike the general property, is strictly associated with reason and thinking. Many everyday roles require the application of intelligence to skills that may have a psychomotor component, for example, in the fields of medicine, sport or the arts, but these do not necessarily involve the practitioner in the "world of ideas". The distinctive quality of the intellectual person is that the mental skills, which he or she demonstrates, are not simply intelligent, but even more, they focus on thinking about the abstract, philosophical and esoteric aspects of human inquiry and the value of their thinking.

Definition of clerisy in the English dictionary

The definition of clerisy in the dictionary is learned or educated people collectively.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLERISY


actressy
ˈæktrɪsɪ
Chrissie
ˈkrɪsɪ
courtesy
ˈkɜːtɪsɪ
headmistressy
ˌhɛdˈmɪstrɪsɪ
icy
ˈaɪsɪ
lacey
ˈleɪsɪ
lacy
ˈleɪsɪ
missy
ˈmɪsɪ
Odyssey
ˈɒdɪsɪ
pleurisy
ˈplʊərɪsɪ
policy
ˈpɒlɪsɪ
pricey
ˈpraɪsɪ
prissy
ˈprɪsɪ
prophecy
ˈprɒfɪsɪ
schoolmistressy
ˈskuːlˌmɪstrɪsɪ
secrecy
ˈsiːkrɪsɪ
sissy
ˈsɪsɪ
spicy
ˈspaɪsɪ
Sulawesi
ˌsuːləˈweɪsɪ
Tracy
ˈtreɪsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLERISY

cleric
clerical
clerical collar
clericalism
clericalist
clerically
clericals
clericate
clericity
clerid
clerihew
clerk
clerk in holy orders
Clerk of Court
clerk of the House
clerk of works
clerk to the justices
clerk-like
clerkdom
clerkess

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLERISY

Barberton daisy
bumpsadaisy
cramoisy
daisy
Doisy
grisy
hypocrisy
lackadaisy
Livingstone daisy
Michaelmas daisy
moon daisy
noisy
oxeye daisy
Shasta daisy
unnoisy
upsadaisy
upsy-daisy
whoops-a-daisy

Synonyms and antonyms of clerisy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «clerisy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLERISY

Find out the translation of clerisy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of clerisy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «clerisy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

clerisy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

clerecía
570 millions of speakers

English

clerisy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

clerisy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

clerisy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

творческой интеллигенции
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

clerisy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

clerisy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cléricature
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Clerisy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Geistlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

clerisy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

clerisy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Clerisy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

clerisy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

clerisy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्लृसी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

clerisy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

clerici
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

clerisy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

творчої інтелігенції
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

clerisy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

clerisy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

clerisy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

clerisy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

clerisy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of clerisy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLERISY»

The term «clerisy» is normally little used and occupies the 133.727 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLERISY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «clerisy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «clerisy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about clerisy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLERISY»

Discover the use of clerisy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to clerisy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Idea of the Clerisy in the Nineteenth Century
This book is about the development in nineteenth-century England of the idea of a secular intellectual elite - the 'clerisy'.
Ben Knights, 2010
2
Social Scientists and Politics in Canada: Between Clerisy ...
Stephen Brooks and Alain Gagnon examine the forms and extent of social scientists' involvement in the political process, their relationship to the state, and the complexities of their class position.
Stephen Brooks, Alain-G Gagnon, 1988
3
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
is head of the National Church and Clerisy, and the protector and supreme trustee of the Nationalty, and head and majesty of the whole nation.) In addition to these two estates, a third exists: the Clerisy or Clerks, serving the Church of a nation.
Russell Kirk, 2001
4
Mill and Liberalism
THE. AUTHORITY. OF. THE. CLERISY. The direction of Mill's doctrine having been established, it remains to ask what attitude should be taken to it. And the first position to which an attitude should be taken arises from Mill's commitment to  ...
Maurice Cowling, 1990
5
The London Quarterly and Holborn Review
The inference is that, even when, as clergy, acting in their spiritual capacity, they are grievously defective, they may yet, as a national clerisy, be doing the State good service, and fairly earning their pecuniary recompense, and the professional ...
6
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
The clerisy says that every spillover in the environment justifies world- governmental control. Scientific economics suggest that it does not. Some spillovers are best treated at the local level, or by making not less private property , but more.
Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2011
7
In the Path of Allah: The Passion of Al-Hajj ʻUmar : an ...
Every community has its clerisy - its poets and philosophers - in short, its learned men. It is the clerisy which frames the nation, lays down its canons and interprets them; embodies the nation, inspirits its courage, rouses its fury. And when the ...
John Ralph Willis, 1989
8
Indonesian Muslim Intelligentsia and Power
In the traditional Islamic polity, this explained the symbolic inter-dependence between the sultan and the Islamic clerisy. The sultan benefited from the religious legitimacy of the clerisy, while the clerisy acquired royal patronage for their welfare ...
Yudi Latif, 2008
9
British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and ...
Coleridge at times includes the press—because of its role in distributing knowledge—in the clerisy, but at other times he complains that the press has become too involved with partisan and mercantile interests. By his own day, he suggests ...
Anne Frey, 2009
10
The British Ethical Societies
The clerisy are its agents as the clergy are the agents of the actual Church. Coleridge compares the actual Church to an olive tree and the National Church to a vine. The olive fertilises surrounding soil and improves the strength and flavour of ...
Ian Duncan MacKillop, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLERISY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term clerisy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
San Francisco 'sanctuary' killing: Why is our political class letting …
Is reality about to intrude on America's political class? For at least the last two decades, that clerisy has assured us that immigration, legal or ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
2
Flag not issue; Liberals want to take down Southern white men
In Britain it's a war of words by the secular clerisy of the media and political set against what they view as the obese, Daily Mail drones of ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
3
On view in Bedlam this week: the pseudo-black prof.
If you're black and behave like it doesn't matter you're an Uncle Tom, especially if you're a conservative, and the PC clerisy will disown you. «The Fortnightly Review, Jun 15»
4
Turkish election a model for secular revolutionaries
... secular law, economic creativity and government by consent of the governed (instead of the consent of the Muslim clerisy and the sultan — or ... «Statesman Journal, Jun 15»
5
Will: A summer break from campus muzzling
Fortunately, a saving clerisy, a vanguard composed of the understanding few, know where history is going and how to help it get there. «Salt Lake Tribune, May 15»
6
'People can't lead full lives if they're dependent on the state'
... fit with the views of what Joel Kotkin has called 'the new clerisy'. ... speech-policing people who fill the ranks of Kotkin's new clerisy has ... «Spiked, May 15»
7
Peter Foster: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson tells it like it is
... the company is not about to abandon any time soon, despite all the braying at its AGM from the climate clerisy and the Divestment Movement. «Financial Post, May 15»
8
The Impending Chorus of 'But I'll Vote For Her Anyway'
... the whole liberal clerisy is going to write "Why I'm Still Voting For Hillary" pieces, along the lines of "Sure, the Clinton Foundation appears to ... «The Weekly Standard, May 15»
9
Why the Left Will Never Talk about Its...
... rhetoric with technocratic verbiage and jargony economic buzzwords like “competitiveness,” because that is the language of the new clerisy. «National Review Online, May 15»
10
Progressive authoritarianism
In our times, Wells' notions foreshadowed the rise of a new class – what I label the clerisy – that derives its power from domination of key ... «Patheos, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Clerisy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/clerisy>. May 2024 ».
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