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Laicity

//leɪˈɪsɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Alternative form of laïcité. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    Synonym of secularism. countable, uncountable

    "A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied in the masonic assemblies and those discussed in the Radical and Radical-Socialist party congresses: between 1901 and 1910 these subjects included state laicity, [...]"

Etymology

Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity.

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