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Meanings of anti-clericalism in inglês

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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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      Usage of anti-clericalism in inglês
      1
      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
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      This is anti-clericalism in all its violence.
      George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
      5
      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
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      So is James Madison's robust anti-clericalism: 'During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial.
      The god delusion
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      However, his sociable instincts and the pleasure he always found in talking to educated men were stronger than his anti-clericalism.
      Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
      8
      The Castors were ultra-clerical and ultramontane; the Bleus inherited the tradition of Gallicanism; the Rouges imported and adapted the anti-clericalism of European Liberals.
      Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics
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      Well, there is no 'Clericalism' now, and therefore there is no anti-Clericalism.
      The Dawn of All
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      They knew the truth; that Anti-Clericalism is not a Protestant movement, but a Catholic mood.
      The Crimes of England
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      Anti-clericalism was the only remedy against all this superstition and ruin, and this spirit came in with the foreign colonists.
      The Shadow of the Cathedral
      12
      Anti-clericalism was widespread among the Republicans and they racked up an impressive list of atrocities in giving vent to it.
      The Irish Times