décléricaliser

A rare, specialized political and historical term meaning to reduce or remove the clergy's influence over public institutions — narrower and much less common than the everyday laïciser, which covers secularization more broadly.

• Certains réformateurs voulaient décléricaliser l'enseignement public. — Some reformers wanted to remove clerical influence from public education.
• Le débat portait sur la nécessité de décléricaliser certaines institutions. — The debate centered on the need to reduce clerical influence over certain institutions.
• Ce mouvement cherchait à décléricaliser la vie politique du pays. — This movement sought to reduce the clergy's influence over the country's political life.

A rare word a learner is unlikely to encounter outside a specific historical or political-science text — laïciser is the term actually used in everyday French to talk about secularizing institutions.

Often confused with laïciser.