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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Are the women in Vermeer’s light-filled interiors cryptic embodiments of Collegiant doctrine or secularized Jesuit motifs?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Hospitals were secularized, orphanages and parish schools closed or often transformed into prep schools for rich kids causing the Church to relinquish much of its relevancy in the daily lives of Catholics.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
“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
Her argument is that in an increasingly secularized society — what’s recently been termed “dechurching” — human beings have assumed godlike power and responsibility, at least over their own bodies and identities.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
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
