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preclerical en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + clerical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before the development of the clergy.
    • And on the other hand, Tolstoy's attempt to recapture the ethos of "primitive," preclerical Christianity enjoined a dramatic detachment from personal wealth and possessions, a communitarian communism […] 2007, Daniel Burston, Erik Erikson and the American Psyche: Ego, Ethics, and Evolution, page 132: