anticlericalism

English

Etymology

From anticlerical +‎ -ism.

Noun

anticlericalism (uncountable)

The opposition to political influence of clerics.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 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

opposition to political influence of clerics

Catalan: anticlericalisme m
Finnish: antiklerikalismi

Portuguese: anticlericalismo m
Romanian: anticlericalism (ro) n

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