laïcité
English
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editUnadapted borrowing from French laïcité.
Noun
editlaïcité (usually uncountable, plural laïcités)
- Secularism and strict separation of church and state characteristic of France since the Third Republic and of Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.
Further reading
edit- Secularism in France on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
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editNoun
editlaïcité f (plural laïcités)
- secularity (state of being secular)
- 1747, M. le P. Cochet de Saint-Valier, Traité de l'indult du parlement de Paris[1], volume 3, page 186:
- La qualité de laïc & d’ecclésiastique est étrangere à la procuration [...]. Ainsi la laïcité n’est point un défaut à opposer au procureur...
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- secularism
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editFurther reading
edit- “laïcité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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