2. Noun. One who opposes the political influence of clerics. ¹
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Definition of Anticlerical
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticlerical
Literary usage of Anticlerical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"anticlerical Movements. Political Opposition (} 1). Dissent and Unbelief (J 2).
III. Evangelical Activities. Protestant Societies (§ 1). ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In his book on the "Congregation" M. Geoffroy de Grand- maison has drawn up a
list of eighteen anticlerical articles published by the "Constitutionnel" in ..."
3. The France of Today by Barrett Wendell (1916)
"The anticlerical authorities of the Republic came to the conclusion that these had
... The crucifix was evidently exasperating to anticlerical prejudice. ..."
4. The Labor Problem and the Social Catholic Movement in France: A Study in the by Parker Thomas Moon (1921)
"Intransigent monarchism was not the only cause, but it was a very powerful cause,
of the anticlerical coalition of bourgeois radicalism or anticlericalism ..."
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