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

The great movement of thought of the thirteenth century is above all a religious movement, presenting a double character—it is popular and it is laic.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

This meant little in the Middle Ages, when all intellectual callings were clerical, when at Oxford gownsman and clerk, townsman and laic, were convertible terms.

From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin

Like most supernatural virtues, it has a laic shadow; the counsel to abstain, and to be unsolicitous, is one not only of perfection, but also of polity.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

Besides, the States of 1576 saw how the clergy readopted to their profit, against the two laic orders, the proposition voted in 1355.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert