Meaning of laicity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
   countable, uncountable
2. Synonym of secularism.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied in the masonic assemblies and those discussed in the Radical and Radical-Socialist party congresses: between 1901 and 1910 these subjects included state laicity, [...]”

“This shows that there can be laicity even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].”

“In this sense, there is no doubt that the concept of laicity has been tremendously useful.”

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