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   Tra·hi·son des clercs

   /träˌēˌzôn dā ˈklār/

   

   noun

   • 1. a betrayal of intellectual, artistic, or moral standards by writers, academics, or artists. literary

   Word Origin French, literally ‘treason of the scholars’, the title of a book by Julien Benda (1927).

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