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n. - One who advocates a policy that attempts to maintain or augment the temporal power (as the political power) of a church or religious hierarchy

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  • He was also, at the time, America's leading -- I guess you'd call it anti-clericalist.
  • It is, however, anti-clericalist, or ‘secular’ in the strict sense (of excluding religious institutions from political power).
  • We should not go back to clericalist practice, such as silent celebration.
  • Do you think the support that there's been for clericalist parties in Iraq since
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