clerically

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English

Etymology

From clerical +‎ -ly.

Adverb

clerically (comparative more clerically, superlative most clerically)

  1. In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
    • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson‎:
      This reverend man, with countenance so demurely benign, with robes so glossy and so clerically flowing, with wig so minutely powdered, so rigid and so vast,—-could this be he who, of late, with sour visage, and in snuffy habiliments, administered, ferule in hand, the Draconian laws of the academy?
    • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown‎:
      Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad.
    • 1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
      His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest.

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