anticlericalist

American  

[an-tee-kler-i-kuhl-ist, an-tahy-] / ˌæn tiˈklɛr ɪ kəl ɪst, ˌæn taɪ- /

noun

1. a person with anticlerical views.

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adjective

1. anticlerical; involving or characteristic of those with anticlerical views.

Example Sentences

And the comrade, who every other day did his best to conserve this tell-tale manner of hairdressing, was formerly a root-and-branch anticlericalist, by profession a zinc-maker at Belleville.

From War by Loti, Pierre