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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clerisy /ˈklɛrɪsi/

▶noun [usu. treated as pl.] learned or literary people regarded as a social group.

– origin C19: appar. influenced by Ger. Klerisei, based on Gk klēros (see cleric).

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