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Meanings of anticlericalism in English

Russian
антиклерикал
Portuguese
anticlericalismo
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anticlericalismo
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anticlericalisme

Movements that oppose the clergy for reasons including their actual or alleged power and influence in all aspects of public and political life and their involvement in the everyday life of the citizen, their privileges, their enforcement of orthodoxy.

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Examples for "anti-clericalism"
Examples for "anti-clericalism"
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I wish I'd remembered it when Malachy accused me of anti-clericalism.
Priest
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But he wished to carry still further the anti-clericalism which was part of his policy.
England under the Tudors
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This experience of my boyhood partly explains my anti-clericalism.
Youth and Egolatry
4
This is anti-clericalism in all its violence.
George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
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Corydon, in spite of all her anti-clericalism, believed in immortality; she laid claim to intuitions and illuminations concerning it.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
Usage of anticlericalism in English
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Anticlericalism has disappeared completely.
The new yorker