secularity
Americannoun
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secularities
plural
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secular views or beliefs; secularism.
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the state of being devoted to the affairs of the world; worldliness.
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a secular matter.
noun
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the state or condition of being secular
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interest in or adherence to secular things
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a secular concern or matter
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Etymology
Origin of secularity
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“And that would be a tragedy, given the cultural importance and intense secularity of New York.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
"My fight is for secularity to be the norm," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022
“When religion is infusing these secular spaces, it troubles the concept of religion, but also troubles the strict secularity we’ve come to expect.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2021
One could say that, in moving from theory to praxis, Hägglund’s secularity gets a touch religious, burning with correction.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
As that popular idea clings to its abstract universality, from which all definite quality is excluded, all such definiteness is only the non-divine, the secularity of things, thus left standing in fixed undisturbed substantiality.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A week-night service thrusts religion in the secularities of the week.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
The morning he spent at the schools, or in parish secularities; the afternoon, till dusk, was devoted to visiting the poor; the night, not to sleep, but to reading and sermon writing.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
With one or two mighty exceptions to be sure—Dante, of course, Buonarroti, of course, and, for all his secularities.
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett
We can do that will in all the secularities of our daily life.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
"My internal arrangements are disturbed; composure of mind will only be obtained by a month's respite from secularities."
From Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael
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