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anticlerical

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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an·ti·cler·i·cal /ˌæntiˈklerɪkəl◂/ adjective  PPRELIGIONbeing opposed to priests having any political power or influence 反对教权的anticlericalism noun [uncountable]
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anticlericalSome historians have argued that the Society was a welcome counterweight to the fiercely anticlerical and anti-intellectual climate fostered by the Puritans.The anticlerical feeling was not incompatible with a very active religious sentiment.To be a layman, even to be anticlerical, is not necessarily to be irreligious.Was it more important than, say, anticlerical propaganda or urbanization?The anticlerical religious settlement was perhaps the most emotive and damaging reform of the republican government.While predictability in behaviour of this kind may enhance the anticlerical view of the monk, it also renders his portrait mundane.
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anticlerical
anticlerical /ˌæntiˈklerɪkəl◂/ adjective
being opposed to priests having any political power or influence
—anticlericalism noun [uncountable]


anti·cler·ic·alBrE /ˌæntiˈklerɪkl/ 🔊NAmE /ˌæntiˈklerɪkl/ 🔊 adjectiveopposed to priests and their influence in political life 反教权主义的anticlerical movements in the seventeenth century十七世纪的反教权主义运动 anti·cler·ic·al·ism BrE /ˌæntiˈklerɪklɪzəm/ 🔊NAmE /ˌæntiˈklerɪklɪzəm/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]