Definition of Laicization

1. Noun. The act of laicizing ¹

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Definition of Laicization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laicization

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

Literary usage of Laicization

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

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1892)
"By the third law—that of 1886—it was ordered that the teaching staff should be entirely lay, and that this laicization should be completed in the boys' ..."

2. Heresy Proceedings in Languedoc, 1500-1560 by Raymond A. Mentzer (1984)
"The consideration of heresy proceedings prior to the religious wars is chiefly a study of the laicization of the criminal offense termed heresy. ..."

3. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1901)
"... acquired by other means were cut up into hectare holdings and granted out to the poor peasant population.3 The laicization of the common school system, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... among other reforms, absolute freedom of worship, civil supervision of conventual establishments, and the laicization of schools and colleges. ..."

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)
"... of the congregations, and the greater the hardship inflicted on them by the complete exclusion of such influences, or the ' laicization ' of education. ..."

6. Europe Since 1815 by Charles Downer Hazen (1910)
"... religious struggle which ended in the complete separation of Church and State, the disestablishment of the former, the laicization of the latter. ..."

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