单词 | benefit of clergy |
释义 | benefit of clergy in British Englishnoun Christianity 1. sanction by the church marriage without benefit of clergy 2. (in the Middle Ages) a privilege that placed the clergy outside the jurisdiction of secular courts and entitled them to trial in ecclesiastical courts benefit of clergy in American English1. 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 |
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