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Wherever the industrial spirit has triumphed over the military and aristocratic spirit, woman strives for the economic and legal independence of a clerk: "woman as clerkess" is inscribed on the portal of the modern society which is in course of formation.
But a "clerk" in the Middle Ages was what we should now more generally call a "cleric," a man in Holy Orders. People in the Middle Ages would have wondered what could possibly be meant by a word which is common in Scotland for a "woman clerk" clerkess. The words which change their meanings in this way tell us the longest, and perhaps the best, stories of all.
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