laic
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It's about what philosophical measures have to be taken to impose a powerful laic republic, unifying all.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2015
It suppresses "all secular congregations of men and women ecclesiastic or laic, even those wholly devoted to hospital service will take away from 600,000 children the means of learning to read and write."
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand
He will not dance to the pipe ecclesiastic, sound it who may—Churchman, Dissenter, priest, or laic.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies
They were said to have their pantaloons, et cetera, all ready, to escape in a laic dress.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
Boniface had not the wit to recognize the changes which had taken place in European communities, and the decided progress which had been made by laic influences and civil powers.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Robert Black
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