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Meanings of intelligentsia in English

Portuguese
intelligentsia
Spanish
inteligencia

An educated and intellectual elite.

intelligentsia
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Examples for "clerisy"
Examples for "clerisy"
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The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, whether poets, or philosophers, or scholars, are these points of relative rest.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2
But there is a certain ridicule, among superficial people, thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import, unless the scholars heed it.
Representative Men: Seven Lectures
3
The Popes always persecuted, with rancorous hatred, the national clerisies, the married clergy, and disliked the universities which grew out of the old monasteries.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Usage of intelligentsia in English
1
The right-wing intelligentsia has formed three broad categories of response to Trump.
NY Magazine
2
Iliescu has encouraged the long conflict between workers and the intelligentsia.
The new yorker
3
But the Balkan has no intelligentsia in the Russian or even American sense.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
4
The support of the Paris intelligentsia helped Lévy to pile pressure on Sarkozy.
The Guardian
5
It was never the concern of anyone except the Jewish intelligentsia.
The new yorker
6
It includes opposition parties, civil society campaigners, members of the intelligentsia and youth activists.
The Guardian
7
And half the faces of the intelligentsia frown in disapproval.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
8
No class has profited more by the evolution of ideas than has the intelligentsia.
The Age of the Reformation
9
This appears to be rather the truth from the way the intelligentsia take it.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
10
What makes the intelligentsia in most countries more amenable to left-wing fascism than right-wing?
The Irish Times
11
Shop workers and a type that classifies as the intelligentsia.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
12
Many members of the Calcutta intelligentsia are among his followers.
Autobiography of a Yogi
13
Russia was the land of the pogrom; Paris was the city of the anti-Semitic intelligentsia.
Modern Times
14
Two taverns in particular were popular with the intelligentsia.
Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600 - 1600 / King ...
15
Sincerity in others-themartyr spirit in others-issomething which thrills the insincerity of all intelligentsia.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
16
This was not the social sphere of the opposition, which primarily belonged to the intelligentsia.
The Guardian
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Portuguese
intelligentsia
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