anticlerical

Examples

• All

• Several decades of strongly anticlerical government in Mexico had not eradicated that country's popular Catholicism.

  Academic text (1998)

• His battles with the church authorities and his extraordinary poetic talents made him the hero of a broad anticlerical laymen's movement.

  Academic text (1995)

• La Regenta is a ferociously anticlerical novel.

  Academic text (2003)

• Being relatively weak, the new government could not repel this challenge and repealed most of the anticlerical legislation.

  Academic text (1999)

• Anticlerical politicians threatened the religious liberty of the masses, who had no electoral alternatives.

  Academic text (1997)

• To win church support for his regime, Diaz chose not to enforce the anticlerical articles in the Constitution of 1857.

  Academic text (1999)

• In 1926, President Plutarco Elias Calles began implementing the anticlerical provisions in the 1917 constitution.

  Academic text (1999)

• The speaker's glee at the Bishop's discomfiture is perhaps not surprising in such a fiercely anticlerical part of Greece as rural Crete.

  Academic text (1990)

• Heirs to the region’s strong anticlerical tradition, they profoundly distrust the religious ideologies of the lower classes.

  Academic text (1992)

• The anticlerical reforms aimed to limit the church's power in government affairs.

Antonyms

C

clerical

11 6.1

Relating to church leaders and their duties

How Anticlerical

anticlerical

8.4

hostile

194 4.6

critical

121 5.2

indifferent

10 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology