English

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Etymology

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From anticlerical +‎ -ism.

Noun

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anticlericalism (uncountable)

  1. The opposition to political influence of clerics.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 310:
      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.

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French anticléricalisme. By surface analysis, anticlerical +‎ -ism.

Noun

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anticlericalism n (uncountable)

  1. anticlericalism

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