secular
adjective
of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal.
secularly
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a word derived from
secular.
Example Sentences
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“The perception for a long time was that defense was either in secular decline or was secularly flat,” Mr. Kreitz says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
This was how I grew up experiencing my faith, though otherwise I had been brought up fairly secularly.
From Time ● Jun. 8, 2015
But I do think that the state of your soul, whether expressed religiously or secularly, is the primary concern in life.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2015
That’s also how he’s able to moralize from a great height, secularly or not, while seeming like your friend.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2011
As religion grows, secularly speaking, weaker, and is more completely divorced from the temporal, even the future penalties, from being both literal and frightful, pale into harmless figures of speech.
From The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
