anticlericalism

English

Etymology

From anticlerical +‎ -ism.

Noun

anticlericalism (uncountable)

1. The opposition to political influence of clerics.

   Antonym: clericocracy

   • 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.

Related terms

• anticleric
• declericalize

Translations

opposition to political influence of clerics

• Catalan: anticlericalisme m
• Dutch: antiklerikalisme (nl) n
• Finnish: antiklerikalismi
• French: anticléricalisme (fr) m
• German: Antiklerikalismus (de) m
• Indonesian: antiklerikalisme
• Italian: anticlericalismo (it) m
• Polish: antyklerykalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: anticlericalismo m
• Romanian: anticlericalism (ro) n
• Russian: антиклерикали́зм (ru) m (antiklerikalízm)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French anticléricalisme. By surface analysis, anticlerical +‎ -ism.

Noun

anticlericalism n (uncountable)

1. anticlericalism

Declension

Declension of anticlericalism

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	anticlericalism	anticlericalismul
genitive-dative	anticlericalism	anticlericalismului
vocative	anticlericalismule