laic

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It's about what philosophical measures have to be taken to impose a powerful laic republic, unifying all.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2015

It suppresses "all secular congregations of men and women ecclesiastic or laic, even those wholly devoted to hospital service will take away from 600,000 children the means of learning to read and write."

From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Durand, John

It is needless to point out that in this series of oaths, these obligations imposed upon the knights, there is a moral development very superior to that of the laic society of the period.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)

Touching my peers, it is but necessary to say, that Mistress Martha Trapbois will none of them, whether clerical or laic.

From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir

Ferdinand's Campaigns henceforth, which turn all on the defence of Hanover, are highly recommended to professional readers; but to the laic sort do not prove interesting in proportion to the trouble.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas