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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Some historians have argued that the Society was a welcome counterweight to the fiercely anticlerical and anti-intellectual climate fostered by the Puritans.
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The anticlerical feeling was not incompatible with a very active religious sentiment.
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The anticlerical religious settlement was perhaps the most emotive and damaging reform of the republican government.
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To be a layman, even to be anticlerical , is not necessarily to be irreligious.
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Was it more important than, say, anticlerical propaganda or urbanization?
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While predictability in behaviour of this kind may enhance the anticlerical view of the monk, it also renders his portrait mundane.