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secular

/sek-yuh-ler/US // ˈsɛk yə lər //UK // (ˈsɛkjʊlə) //

世俗的,俗世,世俗,俗世的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
    • : not pertaining to or connected with religion: secular music.
    • : concerned with nonreligious subjects.
    • : not belonging to a religious order; not bound by monastic vows.
    • : occurring or celebrated once in an age or century: the secular games of Rome.
    • : going on from age to age; continuing through long ages.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a layperson.
    • : one of the secular clergy.

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Examples

  • It sits atop secular trends towards e-commerce over traditional retail, mobile commerce over static, and what I would call a cultural rethinking of used goods in recent years.

  • At this time of year, holiday-themed bars are secular temples.

  • The country has been proud of its technology sector, which has been a bright spot in an economy that has been battered by long-term secular decline in industries ranging from mining and steel to oil and gas to retail.

  • The Islamist militant group emerged in 1987 as a rival to the secular, left-leaning Palestine Liberation Organization, drawing inspiration from the Muslim Brotherhood of neighboring Egypt.

  • Officials stress that they also have strong ties with the secular Palestinian party Fatah, which runs the West Bank.

  • For the last nine years, they have battled secular Baluch nationalists who would like to see an independent Baluchistan.

  • He advocates a secular regime with a total separation of religion form the government.

  • So here, for your Christmas Eve pleasure, are 20 of my favorites, 10 from the ecclesiastical division and 10 secular.

  • From the religious (‘The Holly and the Ivy’) to the secular (‘The Chipmunk Song’), my top 20.

  • A secular police state well practiced in suppressing internal challenges.

  • Besides these, twenty thousand Indians are under the care of secular priests—making a total of two hundred and five thousand.

  • Condition of the archbishopric of Manila in regard to the affairs of ecclesiastical and secular government.

  • In the port of Cavite, three leguas from Manila, there is a parochial church in charge of a beneficed secular priest.

  • Whenever the contrary is heard from anyone, he is corrected, admonished, and punished—by myself if he is a secular.

  • In it they established two religious for each subject, and they have twenty secular collegiates.