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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of clergy.

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Examples

  • ‘Coronation’, first begging the bishop to excuse the peculiar allusions to the ‘clargy’, contained in one of the verses; and then Fanny was asked to sing.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

  • Never a week passed but what she came twice or thrice with a picture or book, mayhaps an apple for me, an 'it's owing to her an' no clargy at all that I'll ever follow her blessed footsteps to heaven.

    Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer

  • 'Ye're sayin', 'says I,' what nine-tenths iv th 'people, laymen an' clargy, are sayin ',' I says.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • There was singers, there was clargy -- "Bless ye both," says Father Tryon --

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • There was singers, there was clargy -- "Bless ye both," says Father Tryon --

    Embers, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • There was singers, there was clargy -- "Bless ye both," says Father Tryon --

    Embers, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The ould plan was twenty times betther: and, for my own part, if it wasn't that the clargy supports them in a manner, and the grant's a thing not easily done widout these hard times, I'd see if I couldn't get

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • ` Is that a venerable way, 'says he, ` to approach your clargy?' says he.

    The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880

  • ` Thundher-an-owns, 'says his raverance, says he -- seein' the Latin took no infect on him, at all at all an 'screechin' that you'd think he'd rise the thatch up iv the house wid the fair fright -- ` and thundher and blazes, boys, will none iv yes come here wid a candle, but lave your clargy to be choked by a spirit in the dark? 'says he.

    The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880

  • Bay these thaugh lemen been apprest, the clargy all het gean,

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

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