Sekirov Dictionary

clerkly

adjective 2
adverb 1
forms 4

adjective2

•
Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
- 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. — 1938
•
(no longer used) Scholarly.
- 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. — 1567

adverb1

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(no longer used) In a scholarly manner.
- If these woordis to some seme spoken to clerkly, goe to, I will expounde theim more plainely. — 1549

forms

clerklier · more clerkly · clerkliest · most clerkly

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