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laïcité

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Unadapted borrowing from French laïcité.

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laïcité (usually uncountable, plural laïcités)

  1. Secularism and strict separation of church and state characteristic of France since the Third Republic and of Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.

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Etymology edit

From laïc +‎ -ité.

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  • IPA(key): /la.i.si.te/
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laïcité f (plural laïcités)

  1. 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...
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  2. secularism

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