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English
Etymology
From anticlerical + -ism.
Noun
anticlericalism (uncountable)
- The opposition to political influence of clerics.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 310:But contacts of this kind between a senior politician of the Republic and the Catholic Church were matters of the greatest delicacy in pre-1914 France, where anticlericalism was the default setting of the political culture.
Translations
opposition to political influence of clerics
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French anticléricalisme. By surface analysis, anticlerical + -ism.
Noun
anticlericalism n (uncountable)
- anticlericalism
Declension
declension of anticlericalism (singular only)