secularity
Americannoun
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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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Origin of secularity
Example Sentences
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“And that would be a tragedy, given the cultural importance and intense secularity of New York.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2023
"My fight is for secularity to be the norm," he told the BBC.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2022
“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
Or Primo Levi, who, when faced with death in Auschwitz, was briefly tempted to pray for rescue, and then did not pray, lest he blaspheme his own secularity.
From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019
If anything further were needed, therefore, to indicate the secularity of this age, its substitutes for worship and its characteristic type of preaching would, in themselves, reveal the situation.
From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker
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