单词 | anticlerical |
释义 | antiˈclericaladj.n. Opposed to clericalism. Hence as n., a person who is opposed to clericalism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] > not unclerkly1573 unclerklike1633 unclerical1677 uncanonical1747 unecclesiastical1834 anticlerical1845 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany II. iv. v. 517 Here too, the inclinations of the council and citizens had received an anti-clerical bias from a great number of circumstances. 1881 Times 16 May 7/4 An anti-Clerical Congress..closed to-day with a speech by M. Louis Blanc. 1881 Times 19 July 5/1 When the anti-Clericals—for it would be absurd to call them Liberals—fail to obtain their provocation in one direction [etc.]. 1883 Good Words 204 The tide of anti-clerical reaction. 1906 J. E. C. Bodley Church in France 51 The anti-Clericals were a minute and feeble minority. 1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xi. 193 Anticlerical critics have suggested that the field work undertaken under Father Schmidt's auspices has been unduly coloured by Catholic or personal prejudices. Derivatives anti-ˈclericalism n. ΚΠ 1886 Times 31 Mar. 5/2 These measures may be regarded as the swing of the pendulum from clericalism to anti-clericalism. 1898 J. E. C. Bodley France I. 141 Free~thinkers contravene the basis of their own profession in erecting anti-clericalism into a dogma. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < adj.n.1845 |
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