anticlericalism
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anticlericalism
noun anti-clericalism
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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.
Opposite: clericocracy, proclericalism
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noun opposition to political influence of clerics
| Português | anticlericalismo |
|---|---|
| Français | anticléricalisme |
| Deutsch | Antiklerikalismus |
| Italiano | anticlericalismo |
| Română | anticlericalism |
| Русский | антиклерикали́зм antiklerikalízm |
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