What is "anticlerical"

Usage examples of "anticlerical".

I suppose that in origin it was anticlerical and I should ask your pardon.

They were supported by local Jacobin militants who had either been harassed during the federalist ascendancy or who simply enjoyed showing off their anticlerical zeal.

In the initial interrogation by Tribunal president Herman, she was represented as an ungovernable wife, forcing Louis, for example, to issue the veto against anticlerical legislation and organizing the flight to Varennes.

And there are certain things that do not changea man who hates the religious will always be anticlerical, whether he be sick or well, drunk or sober.

But a wave of anticlerical feeling has been building up in England for generations so that now Arthur has the full support of at least sixty percent of his nobles and closer to eighty percent of the common people.

The Baath socialist regime, however, with its secular, anticlerical stance, was never comfortable with Shia religious leaders and their followers.

The orphanage was started by Mexican nuns who fled over the border into Texas during the anticlerical hysteria of the revolution when three of their order were raped and crucified on saguaro cacti.

Candles, incense, flowers: we are Catholic after all despite anticlerical sentiments.

Or, as a good anticlerical, is he mocking the stupidity of the religious cliches Panurge recites?

Government executed Francisco Ferrer, a radical and anticlerical educator, though not a true Anarchist.

And he developed his skills as a soapbox orator, specializing in anticlerical themes.

Maybe Costa had some anticlerical thing in his genes, however much he told everyone he was apolitical, the opposite of his father.

Spanish, a bit Catalan, a bit Basque, a bit Navarrese, and highly anticlerical.

If the various anticlerical and antitheistic forces at work in the nineteenth century had had to attack a solid phalanx of radical Christians the story might have been different.