clerically
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Adverb edit
clerically (comparative more clerically, superlative most clerically)
- In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson[1]:
- 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[2]:
- 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:
- His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest.
Translations edit
in a clerical manner
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