Examples of 'anti-clerical' in a sentence

Meaning of "anti-clerical"

anti-clerical (adjective) - characterized by opposition to the influence and power of the clergy or religious hierarchy

How to use "anti-clerical" in a sentence

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That it is an anti-clerical satire seems unlikely.
The publication was vehemently anti-clerical.
Far from being an anti-clerical instrument of torture.
He made his name as an entertaining anti-clerical writer.
Adoula was an anti-clerical and a socialist.
Its political orientation was socialist and anti-clerical.
I am therefore opposed to anti-clerical and atheistic demagogy.
The working population was republican and anti-clerical.
It is also fairly anti-clerical and lampoons the nobility.
He was involved in early revolutionary and anti-clerical activity.
They were perceived as anti-clerical and radical by their political adversaries.
What characterizes the prose is the vehemently anti-clerical sentiment.
They were strongly anti-clerical in both their philosophy and programme.
He strongly supported compulsory primary education, and was firmly anti-clerical.
So this is clearly more of an anti-clerical evocation, than a philosophical recovery.

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Popkhadze criticized the candidate on account of her anti-clerical activism.
Anti-church and anti-clerical sentiments were strong among grassroots party activists.
This revolution had a very anti-clerical character.
This sharpened the anti-clerical sentiment among liberals which evolved into a militant anti-Catholicism.
He was perhaps the most entertaining anti-clerical writer of his period.
Calles applied anti-clerical laws throughout the country and added his own anti-clerical legislation.
Ricard was happy to entertain these boisterous republican and anti-clerical youths.
There developed a strong anti-clerical reaction to the intolerance and obscurantism of the church.
Their political and philosophical thinking tended to be anti-clerical and secular.
Calles applied the anti-clerical laws stringently throughout the country and added his own anti-clerical legislation.
He portrayed himself as a political radical with anti-clerical and anarchist views.
The anti-clerical became the ally of the Church.
It seems to have been a vehicle for him to express his anti-clerical views.
Many Nazis were anti-clerical in both private and public life.
The counter-revolution began as a movement of peaceful resistance against the anti-clerical laws.
The Carbonari were anti-clerical in both their philosophy and programme.
You can hardly open a newspaper these days without reading some anti-clerical article.
These measures were perceived by the anti-clerical Liberals and Socialists as a "declaration of war.
He was also not afraid to officially condemn the reading and spreading of anti-clerical texts.
In his youth this man accepted anti-clerical doctrine and was against the Church.
I would eschew any inelegant manipulations with facts implying an attack attempted by anti-clerical circles.
A renewed shock went through the anti-clerical party on finding that the Cross was a Crucifix.
Now the philosopher is in full swing in this society and their anti-clerical ideas extend.
But the anti-clerical bias of the Legislative Assembly was too strong for such a policy.
Within the liberal school existed both anti-clerical and populist currents.
He may have been persecuted by the Church, but he was not a Satanist or anti-clerical.
The crime seems to have been committed by anti-clerical rebels with no Cathar affiliation whatever.
Many of the new government were Socialist or otherwise anti-clerical.
Many particularly anti-clerical regimes in traditionally Catholic countries were perceived as having a strong Masonic element.
It to be a translation of an unknown French anti-clerical work.
Many particularly anti-clerical regimes in traditionally Catholic countries were perceived as having strong Masonic connections.
Mussolini was raised by a devoutly Catholic mother and an anti-clerical father.
Nietzche shared Epicurus ' anti-clerical message and criticized OTHERworldly promises and fantasies of an immortal life.
Quebec vehicle better adapted to Atheist and anti-clerical mud.
It was intensely anti-clerical and resisted the Catholic Church.

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