English Explanatory Dictionary

laïcité

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Secularism and strict separation of church and state characteristic of France since the Third Republic and of Quebec since the Quiet Revolution.

Word forms

laïcité laïcités laicity

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French laïcité.

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