Definition of Clericalist

1. Noun. One who advocates clericalism.

Generic synonyms: Adherent, Disciple

Definition of Clericalist

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to clericalism. ¹

2. Noun. An advocate of clericalism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clericalist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clericalist

clergyable
clergyman
clergymen
clergypeople
clergyperson
clergypersons
clergywoman
clergywomen
cleric
clerical
clerical collar
clerical collars
clerical spectacles
clericalism
clericalisms
clericalist (current term)
clericalists
clerically
clericals
clericity
clerick
clerics
clerid
clerid beetle
clerids
clerihew
clerihews
clerisies
clerisy
clerite

Literary usage of Clericalist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World as the Subject of Redemption: Being an Attempt to Set Forth the by William Henry Fremantle (1901)
"The government became clericalist. In later times the acquiescent tone has predominated, until the clericalist movement begun in Oxford fifty years ago ..."

2. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"... when Marshal Macmahon, a clericalist soldier, with the sanction of a clericalist Senate, wantonly dissolved a Chamber of Deputies perfectly representing ..."

3. The Anarchists, Their Faith and Their Record, Including Sidelights on the by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1911)
"for the express purpose of giving the authorities an opportunity to proceed against all who were in any way opposed to clericalist ascendancy. ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"His early training was in the evangelical school ; he was to some extent carried away by the clericalist movement of the years 1835-42r but shook himself ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"We may have our own opinion of the society which the clericalist desired to maintain. But it is not to be denied that the fundamental principle of ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"We may have our own opinion of the society which the clericalist desired to maintain. But it is not to be denied that the fundamental principle of ..."

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