Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Clericalism.
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Examples
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He sided with the Whigs because of their support for religious toleration, but joined the Tories because of the Jacobins anti-clericism.
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This quote does prove a theological bias if the teachers are not allowed to explain deism, anti-clericism and the rationale and historical ideals for separation of church and state.
TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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He sided with the Whigs because of their support for religious toleration, but joined the Tories because of the Jacobins anti-clericism.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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And, you know, there's an overwhelmingly Catholic ethos in this country, but that doesn't mean there isn't also a healthy anti-clericism, a kind of resentment of the church that runs alongside it.
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Of Voltaire's anti-clericism little need be said, except to recall our debt to his victory over ecclesiasticism and superstition.
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
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Even without his cassock, I imagine, you would have divined him for a clergyman -- he bore the clerical impress, that odd indefinable air of clericism which everyone recognises, though it might not be altogether easy to tell just where or from what it takes its origin.
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883
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In the Muslim world, clericism curtailed the spread of knowledge, while in Europe, aided by the printing press, the scope of scholarship dramatically widened.
The Guardian World News William Skidelsky 2011
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"Spain saw in the 1930s the birth of a strong and aggressive anti-clericism," the
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Pope warns of "aggressive" anti-clericism in Spain
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"Spain saw in the 1930s the birth of a strong and aggressive anti-clericism," the
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