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clerkliness

noun

Etymology

From clerkly + -ness.

  1. derived from κληρικός — “of the clergy”
  2. derived from clēricus
  3. inherited from clerc
  4. inherited from clerc
  5. suffixed as clerkly — “clerk + ly”
  6. suffixed as clerkliness — “clerkly + ness”

Definitions

  1. scholarship (character or qualities of a scholar)

    • And yet here in this Sermon of Jonah is no great curiousness, not great clerkliness, no great affectation of words, nor painted eloquence; it was none other but, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed;" it was no more.

  2. The character or qualities of a clerk

    The character or qualities of a clerk; the quality of being clerkish; orderliness, attention to detail, diligence, and/or a focus on bureaucratic tasks or recordkeeping.

    • And these months of waiting, of trailing about wards and corridors, this pen and paper game, the clerkliness, while the real work went on about him, and he envied the men who did it, and sometimes came near hating them.
    • Some other images of the contracts […] take this verisimilitude one step further and illustrate with their neat rows and columns the very idea of clerkliness, order, accountability.

The neighborhood

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