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Definition of Clergies
1. clergy [n] - See also: clergy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clergies
Literary usage of Clergies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"The first movement was essential to the second; as the national clergies could
not place themselves under the direction of their respective chiefs till the ..."
2. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1876)
"The fifteenth century was from its commencement distinguished from the foregoing
one by a decisive coalition of the national clergies against the central ..."
3. The Foregleams of Christianity: An Essay on the Religious History of Antiquity by Charles Newton Scott (1893)
"The pastoral clergies, which came into existence later on, also claimed for their
authority divine right, but conferred by a special call from the invisible ..."
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