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Definition of Anticlericalism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticlericalism
Literary usage of Anticlericalism
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)
"91 While Spuller was pointing out how old-fashioned bourgeois anticlericalism
and Republicanism were exposed to the twofold peril of proletarian socialism ..."
2. Vicars of Christ: Popes, Power, and Politics in the Modern World by Michael P. Riccards (1998)
"In that rigidity he was surely influenced by the long, nasty, and threatening
influence of anticlericalism that engulfed so many of the members of the ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"In fact it is reasonable that the religious history of the Revolution, which is
a chapter of anticlericalism, should be more correctly analyzed by an avowed ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"He broke up the robber bands, equipped the country with primary, secondary, and
technical schools, and, divesting himself of the stereotyped anticlericalism ..."
5. 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)
"... and this all the more because aggressive anticlericalism has captured so many
of the governments of powerful countries, and would strive, by appealing ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1914)
"... 209 Anti-Chalcedonians: 12, 564 ANTICHRIST: 1, 194-196; 4, 175 Anticlerical
movements in Spain: 11, 26, 27 anticlericalism in France: 4, ..."