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clerkly /ˈklɑːkli /adjective archaic1Relating or appropriate to a clerk: a list drawn up in a clerkly hand...- They had taken far more kindly to the English language and clerkly jobs, and seemed to be more docile.
- They mostly earned their livings in other clerkly trades, as journalists, parliamentary reporters or lawyers.
- Reginald Wilfer in Our Mutual Friend, like Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol, is amongst the most typically clerkly of Dickens's many London clerks.
2Scholarly; learned: a clerkly man given to deep blushes...- Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles.
- That does not seem to be a ringing endorsement of the procedure, although perhaps it is just cool, clerkly language.
- Mastering a tradition of authoritative texts and the facility to refashion these authorities in contemporary contexts were essential elements of clerkly discourse.
RhymesBarclay, Berkeley, sparkly |