ETYMOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
MULTIPLE MEANINGS
POPULARITY
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The word 'clergy' came from this old language.

What is Latin?

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This is one meaning of the word 'clergy'.

What is 'a group ordained to perform pastoral or sacerdotal functions in a Christian church'?

100

The era that the word 'clergy' spiked in popularity.

What is the medieval era?

200

The word 'clergy' came from this Latin word.

What is clericatus/clericus?

200

This is one meaning of the word 'clergy'.

What is 'the official or sacerdotal class of a non-Christian religion'?

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what is a specific position within the clergy

rabbi, priest, pastor, deacon

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The word 'clergy' can be rooted back to about this time.

What is cerca 1225?

300

what is a synonym for the word clergy

Ministry, priesthood, the cloth, clerics, and pastors

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what religions does the clergy apply to other than christianity 

judiasm, buddhaism, islam

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