What does anticlerical mean?
Anticlerical means Opposed to political influence of clerics..
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Opposed to political influence of clerics..
'I think I am an anti-clerical,' Father Brown would say with a faint smile; 'but there wouldn't be half so much clericalism if they would only leave things to the clerics.'
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Anticlerical means Opposed to political influence of clerics..
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'I think I am an anti-clerical,' Father Brown would say with a faint smile; 'but there wouldn't be half so much clericalism if they would only leave things to the clerics.'
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