Phrase Hound found 4 phrases and 15 compound words that contain clergy. The most common are listed below. Open clergy in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 4
- benefit of clergyA legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
- secular clergyOne of two branches of the clergy, composed of deacons and priests who are not monastics and do not belong to religious orders.
- clergy collarA clerical collar.
- black clergyIn Russia, the regular or monastic clergy, as distinct from the secular or parochial.
Compound words 15
- clergypersonA cleric; especially, an ordained (male or female) Christian minister.
- clergicallearned
- clergylikeResembling or characteristic of the clergy.
- anticlergyOpposing the clergy.
- clergyismSynonym of clericalism: Political or secular power invested in members of the clergy.
- clergymemberSynonym of cleric: A member of a clergy.
- nonclergyThose who are not the clergy.
- clergyableEntitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy.
- clergymanA male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
- clergymenplural of clergyman: A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.