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Definition of Laicizing
1. laicize [v] - See also: laicize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laicizing
Literary usage of Laicizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The difficulty of forming a body of female lay teachers impeded the process of
laicizing the public schools for girls; but this, too, has been complete ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In France alone it had about 400 houses in 1890; but the laicizing of the hospitals
carried out by the government in the last few years has considerably ..."
3. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"Yet one feels or may infer its inarticulate existence, representing in those
disturbed and bloody English decades a certain laicizing of life and opinion in ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1889)
"Officered by such leaders, distrusting her own dogmas, secularizing her education,
laicizing her preaching, the Church opposed no weapon to scathing ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"You began by laicizing the School, and then you neutralized it. You confound the
negation of beliefs with the liberty of thought, which is precisely the ..."
6. A Short History of Nursing from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Lavinia L. Dock, Isabel Maitland Stewart (1920)
"The hospital directors in Paris shared the laicizing tendency by appointing paid
secular ward nurses in 1692. The relation of poverty to disease was long ..."
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