laic
Example Sentences
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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 Alys Hallard
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 Robert Black
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
I see! you can be none other than Wolfframb of Eschinbach, the most unfledged, ignorant laic of those who style themselves masters of the singer's craft up on the Wartburg.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
