Opposed to the power, influence, or privileges of clergy; advocating for separation of church and state.
From anti- (against) + clerical (from Latin clericalis). Became prominent in European political movements of the 18th-19th centuries opposing church authority.
Anticlerical movements swept through Europe when people demanded that priests stop controlling schools and laws—it's about limiting religious institutional power in government and society.
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