Usually means: Removal of priestly status, authority.
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  1. laicization: Merriam-Webster
  2. laicization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. laicization: Collins English Dictionary
  4. laicization: Wordnik
  5. laicization: Wiktionary
  6. laicization: Dictionary.com
  7. Laicization (Catholic Church), Laicization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. laicization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Laicization: Catholic Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The act of laicizing.

Similar:
laicisation, laetification, decatholicization, de-Islamization, lesbianization, secularization, dereligionization, Lithuanianization, laconization, monasticization, more...

Opposite:
clericalization, re-sacralization, re-religification

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Similar:
laicisation, laetification, decatholicization, de-Islamization, lesbianization, secularization, dereligionization, Lithuanianization, laconization, monasticization, more...

Opposite:
clericalization, re-sacralization, re-religification



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