The principles, status, or influence of the laity.
Example sentencesExamples
- With gusto, they embraced the Republican ideal of laicite (laicity) which eschews group difference in the name of a common French political culture and simultaneously frowns upon the entry of religion into the French public square.
- The question that France is posing to the world is this: Can one progress toward true respect of these universal values without relying on some sort of ‘laicity’?