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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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
In a world of secularity and cynicism we are drawn to the stories of those who live and die with such utter conviction, just as we wonder at how credulous they can be.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2019
Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
In secularities it is always Evu who initiates, and Tara admiringly follows.
From Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael
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
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