Definition of Laicity

1. the state of being lay [n LAICITIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laicity

lai-ty
laic
laical
laicality
laically
laich
laichs
laicise
laicised
laicises
laicising
laicism
laicisms
laicistic
laicities
laicity (current term)
laicization
laicizations
laicize
laicized
laicizes
laicizing
laics
laid
laid-back
laid-off
laid back
laid bare
laid down
laid low(p)

Literary usage of Laicity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contemporary France by Gabriel Hanotaux (1907)
"Other works of Liberty, Equality, laicity and Solidarity, to be accomplished by subsequent Assemblies, ..."

2. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1886)
"The secularization, or laicity, of public instruction has proceeded, therefore, to an utterly illogical and ruinous extreme when it has excluded the ..."

3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1881)
"For this laicity is essential, for education on a modern democracy must be imbued with the modern spirit. ' With all my soul,' he said at St. Quentin in ..."

4. Contributions to the Science of Education by William Harold Payne (1886)
"... speaks of this movement as follows: "laicity, or the neutrality of the school in all its grades, is but the application to the school ..."

5. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1881)
"For this laicity is essential, for education on a modern democracy must be imbued with the modern spirit. ' With all my soul,' he said at St. Quentin in ..."

6. Report of Edward A. Van Dyck, Consular Clerk of the United States at Cairo by Edward Abbott Van Dyck (1881)
"In the study of the law there is wanting that which, for the lack of a better expression, may be called the laic element ; and without this laicity in ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Laicity on Dictionary.com!Search for Laicity on Thesaurus.com!Search for Laicity on Google!Search for Laicity on Wikipedia!

Search