Anticlericalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The opposition to political influence of clerics. uncountable

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From anticlerical + -ism.

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