Definition of "laicizing" []

• Present participle of laicize. (verb)

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• "M. Ferry's bill making primary education obligatory, and 'laicizing' that education, finally became law on July"
• "Anne Burke, an Illinois judge who served from 2002 to 2005 on the National Review Board, an advisory panel established by U.S. bishops to monitor their response to the scandal, supports laicizing perpetrators as a matter of justice."
• "Some Catholics say laicizing a perpetrator, which only the Vatican can do, is just and fair — an unambiguous verdict that validates victims and punishes child molesters with the clerical equivalent of the death penalty."