An obsolete or rare term for a member of the clergy; a clergyman or clergyperson.
From 'clergy' with the agent suffix '-ion,' a formation pattern more common in Middle English. The word is now largely obsolete, replaced by 'clergyman' or 'clergyperson.'
This rare word shows how English constantly experiments with word formation—'-ion' was tried as a suffix to mean 'one who does X,' but '-man' and '-person' won out, leaving 'clergion' as a linguistic fossil.
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