laicist
A supporter of laicism; a secularist.
Adjective
- Pertaining to or representing the interests of the laity; non-clerical; secular.
- Most of the European press (and, indeed, most European elites) talk as if Europe must be "laicist," which is the word they use for "aggressively secular," in the manner of the French Revolution. […] It was asked of...
- Today, we face the wave of secularism which has as its starting point the strict separation of Church and State: a laicist model advocating that the State should be strictly separate from religion which is conceived as...
Synonyms: laic laical nonreligious temporal laicist laicistic lay areligious civil earthly irreligious mundane profane secular unconsecrated unsanctified worldly
Origin
From laic + -ist.
Forms
Derived
Noun
- A supporter of laicism; a secularist.
- Thirty years later, with the connivance of the Parti Quebecois, the laicists proceeded to attack Catholic schools by means of the Proulx Report of 1999. - 2004 April 1, "The cultural disintegration of Catholicism in...
- It was asked of Buttiglione, and in such an aggressive and unexpected way that many in Italy are saying publicly that this was a deliberate set-up, engineered by laicists in Brussels still determined to "ecraser...