noun
pl. -·gies persons ordained for religious service; ministers, priests, rabbis, etc., collectively
Origin of clergy
Middle English clergie, office or dignity of a clergyman from Old French from Ecclesiastical Late Latin clericus: see clerk
This priest is a member of the clergy. A clergyman or clergyperson.
The definition of clergy are people that have been trained and approved for religious service.
An example of clergy are priests.
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noun
pl. cler·giesThe body of people ordained or recognized by a religious community as ritual or spiritual leaders. See Usage Note at collective noun.
Origin of clergy
Middle English clergie from Old French ( from Vulgar Latin clercīa ) ( from Late Latin clēricus ; see clerk . ) and from Old French clergié body of clerks ( from Vulgar Latin clercātus ) ( from Late Latin clēricātus ) ( from clēricus clerk, cleric )THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural clergies)
Origin
Attested in the 13th Century CE; from clergie, from Old French clergié (“learned men”), from Late Latin clericātus, from Latin clericus (“one ordained for religious services”), from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikos, “of the clergy”).
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Sentence Examples
- The clergy left the matter to the tsar's own decision.
- "The rule of dissolute bishops, and the example of a turbulent and immoral clergy, had poisoned the morals of the city.
- It became clear that neither the influence of the regular clergy, of which the Society of Jesus is the most powerful embodiment, nor that of foreign clerical parties, which largely control the Peters Pence fund, would ever permit renunciation of the papal claim to temporal power.
- Having refused to accept the civil constitution of the clergy, Dillon had to leave Narbonne in 1790, then to emigrate to Coblenz in 1791.
- 27, 1673) suspended the Hungarian constitution, appointed Johan Gaspar Ampringen dictator, deprived 450 Protestant clergy of their livings and condemned 67 more to the galleys.
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