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  • noun Plural form of clericalist.

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Examples

  • The women who were calling in the gloom around me on God and the Mother of God were not "clericalists"; or, if they were, they had forgotten it.

    A Miscellany of Men 1905

  • Voltaire -- one of the great anti-clericalists -- said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

    Johann Hari: Despite the Riots and Threats, I Stand By What I Wrote 2009

  • The Pope practically made no attempt to preserve the Concordat; but seemed rather relieved at the independence his Church gained by the destruction of it: and it is common talk among the French clericalists that the Church has gained by the change.

    Eugenics and Other Evils 1905

  • Eventually, a wide range of people called for separation, including anti-clericalists who feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and hence felt religious liberty required a separation of church from state.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010

  • Eventually, a wide range of people called for separation, including anti-clericalists who feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and hence felt religious liberty required a separation of church from state.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010

  • Eventually, a wide range of people called for separation, including anti-clericalists who feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and hence felt religious liberty required a separation of church from state.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010

  • Eventually, a wide range of people called for separation, including anti-clericalists who feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and hence felt religious liberty required a separation of church from state.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010

  • Eventually, a wide range of people called for separation, including anti-clericalists who feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and hence felt religious liberty required a separation of church from state.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010

  • Eventually, a wide range of people called for separation, including anti-clericalists who feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and hence felt religious liberty required a separation of church from state.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Daniel1212 2010

  • Eventually, a wide range of people called for separation, including anti-clericalists who feared ecclesiastical authority, particularly that of the Catholic Church, and hence felt religious liberty required a separation of church from state.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TK 2010

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