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anticlericalism

noun

Etymology

From anticlerical + -ism.

  1. derived from clēricālis
  2. formed as anticlerical — “anti- + clerical”
  3. suffixed as anticlericalism — “anticlerical + ism”

Definitions

  1. The opposition to political influence of clerics.

    • But contacts of this kind between a senior politician of the Republic and the Catholic Church were matters of the greatest delicacy in pre-1914 France, where anticlericalism was the default setting of the political culture.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA