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anti-clericalism

anti-clericalism is the alternative form of anticlericalism.

Meaning of anticlericalism

Noun

anticlericalism (uncountable)

  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.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 310

Questions about anti-clericalism

What is anti-clericalism the alternative form of?
Anti-clericalism is the alternative form of anticlericalism.

Words near anti-clericalism in the dictionary

  1. anti-circumcisionist
  2. anti-circumcisionists
  3. anti-civil
  4. anti-civilisational
  5. anti-civilizational
  6. anti-clericalism
  7. anti-climaces
  8. anti-climax
  9. anti-climaxes
  10. anti-climb
  11. anti-clockwise

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