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

The laic confessor endeavours, before all things, to calm the impatience of this soul which is more and more ardent and more and more troubled every day.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

They are very easily alienated from all the higher orders of their subjects, whether civil or military, laic or ecclesiastical.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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 Durand, John

Besides, the States of 1576 saw how the clergy readopted to their profit, against the two laic orders, the proposition voted in 1355.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert