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 laic confessor endeavours, before all things, to calm the impatience of this soul which is more and more ardent and more and more troubled every day.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

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

The communal regimen was established in several towns, notably at St. Quentin and at Soissons, without trouble or violence, and with one accord amongst the laic and ecclesiastical lords and the inhabitants.

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

Luther himself, at the same time that he reserved to the new German church a certain measure of spontaneity and liberty, had placed it under the protection and preponderance of laic sovereigns.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert