[f. CLERKLY + -NESS.] Clerkly quality; scholarliness; learning.
1533. More, Answ. Poysoned Bk., Wks. 1088/2. He woulde … shew his clerklynesse before unlearned men.
1646. Recorde’s Gr. Artes, 4. I may perceive your great clerklinesse by the ordering of your Sciences.
