laicity
nounUK /leɪˈɪsɪti/ · US /leɪˈɪsɪti/
Etymology Borrowed from French laïcité. By surface analysis, laic + -ity.
1
The control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
2
Alternative Alternative form of laïcité.
3
Synonym of secularism.
- A correlation may be observed between the subjects studied in the masonic assemblies and those discussed in the Radical and Radical-Socialist party congresses: between 1901 and 1910 these subjects included state laicity, [...]1949, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, page 73:
- This shows that there can be laicity even where there is no formal separation [of Church and State].2007, The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Religion, page 724:
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- In this sense, there is no doubt that the concept of laicity has been tremendously useful.2017, Second International Handbook of Urban Education, page 596: