laicism
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laicism (countable and uncountable, plural laicisms)
- (especially in reference to Turkey) Secularism.
- 2010, L. Cady, Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age, page 124:
- In a speech in commemoration of the 67th anniversary of the insertion of the principle of laicism into the Turkish constitution, he gave the following ideal typical Kemalist account of laicism: National sovereignty is grounded in the foundation of laicism.
- 2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century[1], Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN, page 8:
- As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.
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Borrowed from French laïcisme.
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laicism n (uncountable)
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declension of laicism (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) laicism | laicismul |
genitive/dative | (unui) laicism | laicismului |
vocative | laicismule |