More radical movements which already existed prior to the reforms of Nikon and where eschatological and anti-clerical sentiments were predominant, would join the priestless Old believers.

Three of the translations were published in the New Ireland Review, but publication was then paused due to a perceived anti-clerical sentiment.

This sharpened the anti-clerical sentiment among liberals which evolved into a militant anti-Catholicism.

Whether impelled by the jealousy of other orders, or whether anti-clerical sentiment was simply an explosion looking for a place to occur, the Jesuits took the brunt.

Many liberals, who bore anti-clerical sentiments, saw the clergy as having allied with the Carlists, and thus the desamortización was only justice.

But the anti-clerical and anti-hierarchical sentiments, unless they undermined the faith and declared doctrine (so far as it was understood), were not in themselves heretical.

Jadid thought often carried distinctly anti-clerical sentiment.

In the face of growing anti-clerical sentiment in Poland, the Roman Catholic Church is calling for an end to this nation's constitutional separation of church and state.

The faculty's close association with the Church resulted in its being closed down during the French Revolution, which had strong anti-clerical sentiment.

The chronicler Edward Hall records that in Parliament Pakington again revealed anti-clerical sentiments, 'speaking somewhat against the covetousness and cruelty of the clergy'.