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Adjective: anticlerical  ,an-tee'kle-ri-kul or ,an,tI'kle-ri-kul [N. Amer], ,an-ti'kle-ri-kul [Brit]
  1. Opposed to political influence of clerics
    "The violently anticlerical rhetoric that hounded Calvinists for the half-century after the Revolution showed deep-seated class hostility"

Encyclopedia: Anticlerical