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Meaning of anticlericalism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The opposition to political influence of clerics.

uncountable

Equivalents

Català anticlericalisme
Čeština antiklerikalismus
Deutsch Antiklerikalismus
Ελληνικά αντικληρικαλισμός αντικληρικισμός αντικληρισμός
Suomi antiklerikalismi
Français anticléricalisme
Bahasa Indonesia antiklerikalisme
Italiano anticlericalismo
Nederlands antiklerikalisme
Polski antyklerykalizm
Português anticlericalismo
Русский антиклерикализм
Tagalog antiklerikalismo

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
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

anticlericalist Anticlimactic Anticlimactically anticlimax Anticlimaxes anticlinal

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