secular

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a candidate for the first London School Board, was decried as an enemy of the Bible and of all religion and morality because he had expressed what he called a secular interpretation of the clause.

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  1. adjective Worldly rather than spiritual.
  2. adjective Not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body: secular music.
  3. adjective Relating to or advocating secularism.
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  • That was one thing he had learned to do — he never made a decision when he was in what he called a secular state. —  Death of a Blue Movie Star
  • Bad are the toadies at the BBC (worse is the government) who pander to the religionists such that the secular, the humanists and the atheists rarely get an opportunity to offer their sounder opinions. —  Planet Atheism
  • AHA president David Niose pointed out that Obama was raised by a mother he described as a secular humanist. —  FOXNews.com
  • · We are still in a long-term secular bear market that can easily last 10 to 20 years. —  Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • They called for dropping the word secular from Indian constitution and replacing it with word religious. —  Countercurrents.org
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  1. Middle English, from Old French seculer, from Late Latin saeculāris, from Latin, of an age, from saeculum, generation, age.

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  1. Formerly also sæcular; from Middle English secular, seculer, seculere, from Old French seculier, seculer, French séculier = Provencal Spanish seglar, secular = Portuguese secular = Italian secolare, from Latin sæcularis, secularis, of or belonging to an age or period (plural sæculares, sæcularia, the secular games), also Late Latin of or belonging to the world, worldly, secular, from sæculum, seculum, a generation, age, Late Latin the world: see secle.
 

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