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
Example Sentences
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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
They are not pastors, but detectives, statisticians and mob orators, and not infrequently their secularity becomes distressingly evident.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
And here am I, grinding away at the secularities yet.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
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 secularities become sacred, and the sanctities become sound.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
It would not have been becoming in him to have a good judgment on these secularities.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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