anticlericalism

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The opposition to political influence of clerics.

Equivalents

Françaisanticléricalisme

DeutschAntiklerikalismus

Portuguêsanticlericalismo

10 more languages

Catalàanticlericalisme

Češtinaantiklerikalismus

Ελληνικάαντικληρικαλισμός αντικληρικισμός αντικληρισμός

Suomiantiklerikalismi

Bahasa Indonesiaantiklerikalisme

Italianoanticlericalismo

Nederlandsantiklerikalisme

Polskiantyklerykalizm

Русскийантиклерикализм

Tagalogantiklerikalismo

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2

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See also

anticlericalist Anticlimactic Anticlimactically anticlimax Anticlimaxes anticlinal

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