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Meanings of secular in English

Portuguese
leigo
Catalan
seglar

Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person.

leigo
Portuguese
secular
Catalan
temporal
Spanish
temporal

Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world.

secular
Synonyms
Examples for "worldly"
Examples for "worldly"
1
Nor do I use the word prosperity in its mere worldly sense.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
2
But still lays claim to worldly pleasure, does not tell the truth.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
3
The food and drink on offer at The Houghton Hotel remains other-worldly.
The South African
4
The worldly-wise warnings are after all in the interests of true friendship.
Friendship
5
It was his conception of the ideal in worldly-asopposed to spiritual-life
The Book-Hunter at Home
1
Results: Model discrimination in the temporal and external validation datasets was good.
Pubmed
2
So began my first-and nearly only-tampering with the course of temporal events.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
3
However, medial temporal tangles were related to age independent of neuritic plaques.
Pubmed
4
Case description: This 53-year-old male with a ruptured left temporal-occipital arteriovenous malformation.
Pubmed
5
Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.
The Imitation of Christ
Portuguese
secular

Of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows.

secular
Portuguese
profano

Not concerned with or devoted to religion.

profano
Usage of secular in English
1
For the secular constituency in Turkey has good reason to feel uneasy.
The Irish Times
2
By barring moderate opposition candidate Bobonazarova, secular authorities risk radicalising the opposition.
Reuters
3
By barring moderate opposition candidate Oynihol Bobonazarova, secular authorities risk radicalizing opposition.
Reuters
4
Public prayer has no place in the institutions of a secular state.
The Irish Times
5
The state ideology, Pancasila, enshrines religious diversity in an officially secular system.
Reuters
6
There is also a secular charge: use and distribution of illegal drugs.
A Time of Changes
7
RELIGION & ISLAM Officially secular Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population.
Reuters
8
Anti-Hudood activists say that Pakistan's secular laws served rape victims far better.
Feminist dot com
9
Minorities and secular Egyptians worry he will subject them to Islamic laws.
Reuters
10
His problem was that the culture of contemporary liberalism is avowedly secular.
The Guardian
11
Take the higher branches of secular teaching in the colleges and professions.
Equality
12
The members of the secular tribunal were not unanimous on this point.
The Book of Were-Wolves
13
A Speech in Parliament, concerning the Power of Bishops in secular things.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
14
It had been ten days of nonstop secular, religious and image-enhancing activity.
The last page
15
The effects on secular data of changes in enquiry policy are illustrated.
Pubmed
16
Gil grew up in a secular Jewish family in upstate New York.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
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Translations for secular
Secular through the time
Secular across language varieties
Ireland
Common
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Common
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