laïcité

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English

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French laïcité.

Noun

laïcité (usually uncountable, plural laïcités)

  1. Secularism and strict separation of church and state characteristic of France since the Third Republic and of Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.

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French

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Etymology

From laïc +‎ -ité.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.i.si.te/
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Noun

laïcité f (plural laïcités)

  1. secularity (state of being secular)
    • 1747, M. le P. Cochet de Saint-Valier, Traité de l'indult du parlement de Paris‎, volume 3, page 186:
      La qualité de laïc & d’ecclésiastique est étrangere à la procuration [...]. Ainsi la laïcité n’est point un défaut à opposer au procureur...
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  2. secularism

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