Cabal vs Clerisy - What's the difference?
cabal | clerisy |
A usually secret exclusive organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
A secret plot.
An identifiable group within the tradition of .
* 1965
To engage in the activities of a
* I believed her to have been carried off by some persons belonging to a party of Jacobites who were known to be caballing against the government, though to what extent was not then ascertained.
, title=The king's highway
, volume=1
, author=George Payne Rainsford James
, year=1840
, page=68-69
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An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati.
* 2003': By the nineteenth-century '''clerisy [...] Christianity itself, yoked to material civilization, came to be questioned as gross and vulgar. — , ''Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 432)
The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
As nouns the difference between cabal and clerisy
is that cabal is a usually secret exclusive organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose while clerisy is an elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati.As a verb cabal
is to engage in the activities of a.cabal
English
(wikipedia cabal)Noun
(en noun)- The cabal is plotting to take over the world.
- The cabal to destroy the building was foiled by federal agents.
- Some episkoposes have a one-man cabal . Some work together. Some never do explain.