"clerkly" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From clerk + -ly.",
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    {
      "form": "clerklier",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "the clerkly life",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Fred Whishaw, chapter 12, in Mazeppa, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 104–105",
          "text": "Therefore, desiring to keep my place in the young Tsar’s regard, I did not speak too highly of Mazeppa, though I allowed him to be a shrewd and capable person, of clerkly rather than military attainments.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann, published 1962, Part Five, Chapter 4, p. 193",
          "text": "Ida Arnold swivelled her eyes round the elegant furnishing of the Pompadour Boudoir. They picked out like a searchlight a cushion, a couch, the thin clerkly mouth of the man opposite her.",
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        "Of clerks; befitting a clerk."
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        {
          "word": "clerkish"
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        {
          "word": "clerky"
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        {
          "ref": "1567, Thomas Stapleton, chapter 6, in A Counterblast to M. Hornes Vayne Blaste against M. Fekenham, Louvain, page 36",
          "text": "For notwithstanding al your great brags and this your clerkly booke, ye knowe not nor euer shall knowe, but that the Pope is the supreame head of the Churche.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1620, Joseph Hall, The Honor of the Married Clergie, London: H. Fetherstone, Book 1, Section 22, p. 121",
          "text": "The words are Gratians, that Copula Sacerdotalis vel consanguincorum, The marriage or (as this Clerkly Grammarian translates it) the carnall copulation of Priests, or kinsfolkes is not forbidden by any Legall, Euangelicall, or Apostolicall authoritie, but by Ecclesiasticall Law it is forbidden.",
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        "Scholarly."
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        "(obsolete) Scholarly."
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From clerk + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more clerkly",
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1549, Erasmus, translated by Thomas Chaloner, The Praise of Folie, London: Thomas Berthelet",
          "text": "If these woordis to some seme spoken to clerkly, goe to, I will expounde theim more plainely.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1567, Arthur Golding, “Too the Reader”, in The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, London",
          "roman": "No nor more straunge varietie too shew a lerned wit.",
          "text": "For this doo lerned persons déeme, of Ouids present woorke:\nThat in no one of all his bookes the which he wrate, doo lurke\nMo darke and secret misteries, mo counselles wyse and sage,\nMo good ensamples, mo reprooues of vyce in youth and age,\nMo fyne inuentions too delight, mo matters clerkly knit,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1783, Thomas Holcroft, Human Happiness: or The Sceptic, London: L. Davis et al., Canto 5, p. 56,\nBut I can prove, by reading Clerkly,\nFrom Leibnitz, Malbranche, Bayle, and Berkley,\nThings far more strange, friend Will, than these;"
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        "(obsolete) In a scholarly manner."
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  "etymology_text": "From clerk + -ly.",
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        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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          "text": "the clerkly life",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Fred Whishaw, chapter 12, in Mazeppa, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 104–105",
          "text": "Therefore, desiring to keep my place in the young Tsar’s regard, I did not speak too highly of Mazeppa, though I allowed him to be a shrewd and capable person, of clerkly rather than military attainments.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann, published 1962, Part Five, Chapter 4, p. 193",
          "text": "Ida Arnold swivelled her eyes round the elegant furnishing of the Pompadour Boudoir. They picked out like a searchlight a cushion, a couch, the thin clerkly mouth of the man opposite her.",
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        }
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        "Of clerks; befitting a clerk."
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        {
          "ref": "1567, Thomas Stapleton, chapter 6, in A Counterblast to M. Hornes Vayne Blaste against M. Fekenham, Louvain, page 36",
          "text": "For notwithstanding al your great brags and this your clerkly booke, ye knowe not nor euer shall knowe, but that the Pope is the supreame head of the Churche.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1620, Joseph Hall, The Honor of the Married Clergie, London: H. Fetherstone, Book 1, Section 22, p. 121",
          "text": "The words are Gratians, that Copula Sacerdotalis vel consanguincorum, The marriage or (as this Clerkly Grammarian translates it) the carnall copulation of Priests, or kinsfolkes is not forbidden by any Legall, Euangelicall, or Apostolicall authoritie, but by Ecclesiasticall Law it is forbidden.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "(obsolete) Scholarly."
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  "etymology_text": "From clerk + -ly.",
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      "form": "more clerkly",
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          "ref": "1549, Erasmus, translated by Thomas Chaloner, The Praise of Folie, London: Thomas Berthelet",
          "text": "If these woordis to some seme spoken to clerkly, goe to, I will expounde theim more plainely.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1567, Arthur Golding, “Too the Reader”, in The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, London",
          "roman": "No nor more straunge varietie too shew a lerned wit.",
          "text": "For this doo lerned persons déeme, of Ouids present woorke:\nThat in no one of all his bookes the which he wrate, doo lurke\nMo darke and secret misteries, mo counselles wyse and sage,\nMo good ensamples, mo reprooues of vyce in youth and age,\nMo fyne inuentions too delight, mo matters clerkly knit,",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "text": "1783, Thomas Holcroft, Human Happiness: or The Sceptic, London: L. Davis et al., Canto 5, p. 56,\nBut I can prove, by reading Clerkly,\nFrom Leibnitz, Malbranche, Bayle, and Berkley,\nThings far more strange, friend Will, than these;"
        }
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        "In a scholarly manner."
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        "(obsolete) In a scholarly manner."
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