laic

Example Sentences

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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 is all interesting even to a non-artistic laic, for there is much "dry point" of general application in the Professor's lectures.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various

It is the same in the financial and diplomatic services, in every branch of the administration, laic or ecclesiastical, in the physical order and in the moral order.

From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John

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

There is no distinction between laic and cleric in Islam.

From The Moors in Spain by Lane-Poole, Stanley