as in priest
a person specially trained and authorized to conduct religious services in a Christian church
clerics were sharply divided on the issue of whether the war was morally justified
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When the cohort last signed off, a concerned sorcerer had teleported an outmatched cleric right into a giant crocodile’s mouth.
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Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the importance of their country in the Catholic world.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
Iranian clerics who were willing to work with the Shah were undermined.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
People will decide to read things that would be deplored by literary critics or anti-smut campaigners or religious clerics or card-carrying rationalists.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
Even into the modern period, naming a foreign cleric as cardinal was taken as a measure of the importance of their country in the Catholic world.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
Iranian clerics who were willing to work with the Shah were undermined.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
People will decide to read things that would be deplored by literary critics or anti-smut campaigners or religious clerics or card-carrying rationalists.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cleric
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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleric. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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