"lawyerdom" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1862, Beryl Willow, \"The Double Test\", Chapter II., in Godey's Magazine, Volume 64, page 135",
          "text": "Through all the grades of \"lawyerdom,\" from that of a simple copyist of deeds up to the satisfactory condition of a legal \"limb,\" in verity, with an extensive practice, I had passed, and had finally come into the enjoyment, whether merited or not, of a handsome reputation as an advocate."
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          "ref": "1966, Julius Stone, Law and the Social Sciences in the Second Half Century, page 51:",
          "text": "An undercurrent of hostility to traditional lawyerdom as a self-centered and defensive craft and an enemy of the extension of knowledge may be felt even in those protagonists of behavioralism and machine techniques who do not aspire to enthrone multivariate calculations in the very seat of justice.",
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          "text": "What you have discovered in the law is a seldom seen flaw within lawyerdom.",
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        "The realm or sphere of lawyers."
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