Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Clerical position or authority.
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Examples
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When he determined to seek the clericature, his proposal made a demand on all their old-fashioned religious sentiment.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866
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