Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

clerically

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cler-i-cal-ly
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a clerical manner; as a cleric.

Example Sentences

"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?"
"Among the black and breaking groups in that distance was one especially black which did not break—a group of two figures clerically clad."
"His plump hands were transparent against the clerically black vest."

Etymology

Etymology tree English clerical Middle English -ly English -ly English clerically From clerical + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more clerically (comparative) most clerically (superlative)

Questions

What does clerically mean?: In a clerical manner; as a cleric.
Where does clerically come from?: Etymology tree English clerical Middle English -ly English -ly English clerically From clerical + -ly.

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