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benefit of clergy

  1. the exemption of the medieval clergy from trial or punishment except in a church court
  2. an administering or sanctioning by the church a couple that is married without benefit of clergy

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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