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Definition of Laicising
1. laicise [v] - See also: laicise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laicising
Literary usage of Laicising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical Development of Modern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to by Charles McLean Andrews (1899)
"But the attack on the religious houses and the free universities and the laicising
of the primary schools, while rousing the wrath of the ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1883)
"... between the Church and the schools, and that one serious step has been taken
towards the secularising, or at least laicising, of our higher education. ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... of the voters were the expeditions of M. Ferry in the East and the demonstrations
of the ' laicising' Government against Christianity and the Church. ..."
4. History of Modern France, 1815-1913 by Emile Bourgeois (1919)
"It was a weapon for the use of the Government in the warfare it was about to wage
against the laicising and levelling spirit of society as constituted by ..."
5. France by John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1898)
"Paul Bert and Jules Ferry unfolded their laicising programmes, they were regarded
by the Reactionaries as the agents of the President of the Chamber, ..."
6. The Positive Evolution of Religion, Its Moral and Social Reaction by Frederic Harrison (1913)
"The inevitable laicising and secularising tendency of marriage must be otherwise
counteracted. A priesthood rigidly separated from wealth may be married ..."
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