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clergyperson

noun

Etymology

From clergy + person.

  1. derived from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 — “mask”
  2. derived from persōna — “mask used by actor; role, part, character”
  3. derived from parsone
  4. inherited from persoun
  5. compounded as clergyperson — “clergy + person”

Definitions

  1. A cleric

    A cleric; especially, an ordained (male or female) Christian minister.

    • Holonyms: clergy; see also Thesaurus:clergy

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at clergyperson. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at clergyperson. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at clergyperson

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA