clerisy

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On the right, pleasure is championed against intellectuality, the clerisy: the old reactionary myth of heart against head, sensation against reasoning, (warm) "life" against (cold) "abstraction": must not the artist, according to Debussy's sinister precept, "humbly seek to give pleasure"?

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  1. noun Educated people considered as a group; the literati.

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  • The idea of a three-way split of Iraq between Sunnis, Shias and Kurds has long been mooted in some quarters -- Joe Biden and "liberal" intellectuals like Leslie Gelb and Peter Galbraith were early enthusiasts -- and it is now gaining force within the foreign policy "clerisy" that Glenn Greenwald and
  • On the right, pleasure is championed against intellectuality, the clerisy: the old reactionary myth of heart against head, sensation against reasoning, (warm) "life" against (cold) "abstraction": must not the artist, according to Debussy's sinister precept, "humbly seek to give pleasure"? —  The Existence Machine
  • Although Davis was almost universally reviled by the clerisy of jazz writers for abandoning the true faith of acoustic jazz, some of the music on albums such as —  BrothersJudd Blog
  • That's how the global-warming clerisy debates these days, but we'll try to take their argument seriously. —  Planet Gore
  • It is held by what he calls the 'clerisy.' —  The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
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  1. German Klerisei, clergy, from Medieval Latin clēricia, from Late Latin clēricus, priest; see clerk.

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  1. = Dutch klerezij (= Middle Low German klerkesie) = German klerisei = Danish Swedish kleresi, from Middle Latin *clericia, clergy: see clergy.
 

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