英语词汇“clerisy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

clerisy

/ˈklɛrɪsi

noun [usually treated as plural]

Learned or literary people regarded as a social group or class: the clerisy are those who read for pleasure [treated as singular]: he makes Coleridge’s ambitions for a clerisy exclusively conservative...

However, he did discuss in a few writings, albeit briefly, his notion of a clerisy, a doctrine common in the nineteenth century.
In Britain, his main gripes were spreading suburbia, neglected defences, and the rise of a pliant state-educated clerisy.
It helps defuse the self-serving pomposity of much of the journalistic clerisy.

Origin

Early 19th century: apparently influenced by German Klerisei, based on Greek klēros 'heritage' (see cleric).

单词	clerisy
释义	clerisy /ˈklɛrɪsi / noun [usually treated as plural] Learned or literary people regarded as a social group or class: the clerisy are those who read for pleasure [treated as singular]: he makes Coleridge’s ambitions for a clerisy exclusively conservative... However, he did discuss in a few writings, albeit briefly, his notion of a clerisy, a doctrine common in the nineteenth century. In Britain, his main gripes were spreading suburbia, neglected defences, and the rise of a pliant state-educated clerisy. It helps defuse the self-serving pomposity of much of the journalistic clerisy. Origin Early 19th century: apparently influenced by German Klerisei, based on Greek klēros 'heritage' (see cleric). Rhymes heresy
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