laïcité

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from French laïcité.

Noun[edit]

laïcité (usually uncountable, plural laïcités)

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

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French[edit]

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From laïc +‎ -ité.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /la.i.si.te/
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Noun[edit]

laïcité f (plural laïcités)

  1. secularity (state of being secular)
    • 1747, M. le P. Cochet de Saint-Valier, Traité de l'indult du parlement de Paris‎[1], volume 3, page 186:
      La qualité de laïc & d’ecclésiastique est étrangere à la procuration [...]. Ainsi la laïcité n’est point un défaut à opposer au procureur...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. secularism

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