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unsecular

American  
[uhn-sek-yuh-ler] / ʌnˈsɛk yə lər /

adjective

  1. not secular; pertaining to things that are sacred or religious.


Other Word Forms

  • unsecularize verb

Example Sentences

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Until recently, that idea had come to seem so impossible to dislodge that even patently unsecular politicians feel compelled to pay lip service to it.

From The Guardian

Unsecular, un-sek′ū-lar, adj. not secular or worldly.

From Project Gutenberg

Any hero or heroine of wealth who found peace of mind and married happily, only attained these objects through the assistance of some noble though humble unsecular person whose example and instruction led them to adopt unsecular views.

From Project Gutenberg

Without venturing to affirm so wholesale a proposition, which necessarily includes in its censure professors and professions par excellence unsecular and liberal, we may be permitted in charity to express our regret, that the rewards apportioned to good men in heaven are not bestowed upon those in whom the selfish principle is most rampant, instead of being strictly reserved for others in whom it is least influential; since it is more pleasing to consider celestial joys in connexion with humanity at large, than with an infinitesimal minority of mortals.

From Project Gutenberg

You see them worn by clergymen with unsecular ideas in dress, and by the leader of the counterfeiters' gang in the moving pictures.

From Project Gutenberg