[f. as prec. + -ITY.]
1. (with pl.) A clerical action or trait.
1660. S. Fisher, Rusticks Alarm, Wks. (1679), 53. In those their Carnal Clericalities.
2. Clerical quality or condition.
1877. Fraser’s Mag., XVI. 450. The Church Congress! This is the very concentrated essence, the focus, of Clericality.
1884. G. P. Hawley, Wit, Wisd. & Philos. Richter, 54. Clericality does, at all times, stand in a very close relation to the feminine heart.
