secularize
verb (used with object)
to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
secularized
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past participleof secularize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof secularize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
secularizeverb (used with object)to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
Example Sentences
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Nonreligious scholars and analysts in the secularized West tend to assume that because they don’t take religion seriously, other important and accomplished people don’t, either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“You could make the argument that it … in the secularized form over the centuries becomes just a general principle that the morally correct person is somebody who doesn’t waste their time.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
He was candid in conceding a decline of faith in the increasingly secularized developed world.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Now, in this secularized understanding of it, Silicon Valley is all about doing good and lining your pockets at the same time.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022
In 1802 the see was secularized, the bulk of its territories being assigned to Bavaria and the rest to Salzburg, of which Freising had been a suffragan bishopric.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
