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Definition of Anticlericals
1. anticlerical [n] - See also: anticlerical
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticlericals
Literary usage of Anticlericals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Labor Problem and the Social Catholic Movement in France: A Study in the by Parker Thomas Moon (1921)
"Moreover, the strenuous denunciation of Judaism and Free-Masonry by certain
antisemitic Catholic journals enabled the anticlericals to accuse the Catholics ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Perhaps the principal reason for the recall of these exiles was that they were
anticlericals, who he believed would serve ..."
3. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1920)
"... well as the strong ones in people he met, Cadorna showed a fine hand in avoiding
feuds between Clericals and anticlericals, which tended to divide Rome. ..."
4. The Development of Modern Europe: An Introduction to the Study of Current by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1908)
"The anticlericals were a minute and feeble minority." sions of the *, ...-,..
Final separa- But with the establishment of the republic all this was Church ..."
5. Problems and Methods of Literary History: With Special Reference to Modern by André Morize (1922)
"Our ideal is to construct a Bossuet and a Voltaire that neither Catholics nor
anticlericals can refute, with personalities that both will acknowledge to be ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1883)
"The feud between Church and State continues to rage unchecked in France where
the latest triumph of the anticlericals has been to exclude chaplains from the ..."
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