Clerisy
[kler-uh-see] /ˈklɛr ə si/
noun
1.
learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia.
n.
1818, on model of German clerisei, from Late Latin clericia, related to clericus (see cleric); coined by Coleridge “to express a notion no longer associated with CLERGY” [OED].
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