secularity
Americannoun
plural
secularities-
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
Etymology
Origin of secularity
Example Sentences
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This latest controversy was triggered by government figures which show that in the last academic year there was a big increase in what are described as "breaches of secularity" in schools.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023
“And that would be a tragedy, given the cultural importance and intense secularity of New York.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2023
“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
The word comes into common usage around 1800, linked to social change – especially the secularity, alienation and competition produced by modernity.
From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2019
He spares no one—popes, bishops, monks, and the laity are lashed in vigorous language for their secularity, covetousness, and other faults; but perhaps his sharpest castigation is reserved for the false mystics.
From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph
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