laicity

plural laicities

1. countableuncountableThe control or influence of the laity or the fact of being lay.
2. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of laïcité.
3. countableuncountableSynonym of secularism.

   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

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   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

   Synonyms: secularism