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anticlerical

/an-tee-kler-i-kuhl, an-tahy-/US // ˌæn tiˈklɛr ɪ kəl, ˌæn taɪ- //UK // (ˌæntɪˈklɛrɪkəl) //

反教派,反教士,反教会,反教廷

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : opposed to the influence and activities of the clergy or the church in secular or public affairs.

Examples

  • How did it become the anticlerical, ego-theistic literature of today?

  • The Vatican has also defended the pontiff, calling the charges a fantasy of “the anticlerical left.”

  • Even in this critical moment the officer could not drop the anticlerical rhetoric and pompous style that he always adopted.

  • But the priest––did you not say only last week that he himself had published a book violently anticlerical in tone?

  • It begins as he intended, anticlerical; and so it will run for a while.

  • Nominally acting for the Government; at heart, anticlerical.

  • How could Wenceslas interpret this but as an anticlerical uprising?