Definition of "clericalist" [clericalist]

• Of or pertaining to clericalism. (adjective)
• An advocate of clericalism (noun)

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• "I will, however,just comment that a sort of "clericalist" mindset, which is always a danger within the Church and about which Chaucer, for example, is scathing, and also Thomas More some centuries later was particularly strong in the first half of the 20th century for various reasons."
• "It is, however, anti-clericalist, or ‘secular’ in the strict sense (of excluding religious institutions from political power)."
• "He was also, at the time, America's leading -- I guess you'd call it anti-clericalist."