Clergy
the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.
Contemporary Examples
After the initial shock, a lightbulb came on among the clergy.
The Neighboring Movement: A Simple, Radical Idea Joshua DuBois May 4, 2013
Friday speech by different government organizations and some members of the clergy.
Memo from the Streets of Tehran, Part III Parvez Sharma June 19, 2009
Ultra-Orthodox Jews, including children as young as 8, spit at members of the clergy on a daily basis, Rev. Pizzaballa said.
Vatican Official Blasts Extremists in Israel After Monastery Attack The Telegraph September 8, 2012
He has the right to visit with clergy, but had not requested any.
Waiting for the Firing Squad Pia Ringheim Jensen June 16, 2010
Everyone in the secular press has their favorite, and they are easily wined and dined as much as the clergy.
Pope Fever Grips Rome Barbie Latza Nadeau March 3, 2013
Historical Examples
No President, probably, was ever so much annoyed by the clergy as Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? John B. Remsburg
Well would it be if all the clergy were as sweet-tempered as that Bishop of Helstonleigh!
The Channings Mrs. Henry Wood
But our clergy have prayers to be feared by the upholders of wrong.
Charles Sumner; his Complete Works, v. 4-20 Charles Sumner
The Prefect of the Department, the Bishop, the clergy, objected to her story.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola
The great quarrel between the parliament and the clergy was then at its height.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete Jean Jacques Rousseau
noun (pl) -gies
the collective body of men and women ordained as religious ministers, esp of the Christian Church related adjectives clerical pastoral
n.
c.1200, clergie “office or dignity of a clergyman,” from two Old French words: 1. clergié “clerics, learned men,” from Medieval Latin clericatus, from Late Latin clericus (see clerk); 2. clergie “learning, knowledge, erudition,” from clerc, also from Late Latin clericus. Meaning “persons ordained for religious work” is from c.1300.
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