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.

Translations

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
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