secularity
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secularities
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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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Macron had originally intended to make an address inside the cathedral, but was advised that this would contravene France's strict rules on secularity.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
“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
The reaction against this dusty dominion of secularity kindled new life in rival schools.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
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
The morning he spent at the schools, or in parish secularities; the afternoon, till dusk, was devoted to visiting the poor; the night, not to sleep, but to reading and sermon writing.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
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
With one or two mighty exceptions to be sure—Dante, of course, Buonarroti, of course, and, for all his secularities.
From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Maurice Henry Hewlett
The secularities become sacred, and the sanctities become sound.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
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