Noun:

याजकगण,

clergy's Usage Examples:

Having refused to accept the civil constitution of the clergy, Dillon had to leave Narbonne in 1790, then to emigrate to Coblenz in 1791.

It became clear that neither the influence of the regular clergy, of which the Society of Jesus is the most powerful embodiment, nor that of foreign clerical parties, which largely control the Peters Pence fund, would ever permit renunciation of the papal claim to temporal power.

His concordat with Florence (1516) guaranteed the free election of the clergy in that city.

The nobility and clergy were on the side of the ducal authority; its opponents were the municipalities, especially those of Flanders.

The Spaniards, through the Catholic clergy, offer praise to God for their victory over the French on the fourteenth of June, and the French, also through the Catholic clergy, offer praise because on that same fourteenth of June they defeated the Spaniards.

As archbishop of Toledo he exerted himself to protect the clergy from the obligation to pay the excises or octroi duties known as "the millions" and thereby helped to perpetuate the financial embarrassments of the government.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but for the most part, I think people do just as well with their clergy or a friend — though maybe not as fast.

"The rule of dissolute bishops, and the example of a turbulent and immoral clergy, had poisoned the morals of the city.

The total personnel of state-paid Roman Catholic clergy amounted in 1903 to 36,169.

The clergy left the matter to the tsar's own decision.

Synonyms:

reverend, prelature, prelacy, pastorate, clergyman, priesthood, man of the cloth, cardinalate,

Antonyms:

mass, temporalty, profane, layman, laity,