benefit of clergy是什么意思_benefit of clergy的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

But in every play from "Love's Labour's lost" to "Henry V, " the elocutionist meddles simply as a murderer, and ought to be dealt with as such without benefit of clergy.

不过，从《爱的徒劳》到《亨利五世》的每部作品，朗诵家在其中的干预根本就如一名杀手，而对他也的确该毫不容情地以此论处。

释义

historical exemption of the English clergy and nuns from the jurisdiction of the ordinary civil courts, granted in the Middle Ages but abolished in 1827

〈史〉英格兰神职人员或修女不受普通民事法院审判的特权（始于中世纪，１８２７年废除）。

ecclesiastical sanction or approval

教会的批准（指在教堂举行结婚仪式）

they lived together without benefit of clergy.

他们未经教会同意正式结婚就同居了。