secularized
past simple and past participle ofsecularize
secularize
verb[T]
(UKusuallysecularise)uk/ˈsek.jə.lər.aɪz/us/ˈsek.jə.lər.aɪz/When something is secularized,religiousinfluence,power, orcontrolisremovedfrom it:
HeclaimsthatWesternsecularizedsocietymakes itdifficulttoliveas aChristian.
Society - general words
- amenity
- civilization
- civilized
- consumer society
- culturomics
- digital divide
- hunter-gatherer
- non-segregated
- non-segregation
- non-utility
- pluralism
- sociality
- socially
- societal
- socio-
- sociocultural
- sociology
- superstructure
- uncivilized
- utility
Examplesofsecularized
secularized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
His vision became moresecularizedin the 1950s.
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Both were born into religious families butsecularizedby their study of the natural world.
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It was, he said, the idea of nineteenth-century intellectuals that society had becomesecularizedand religion became a matter for private belief.
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Marriage had also become an increasinglysecularizedaffair.
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Recent historical attention to national identity has appropriately been accompanied by the reintegration of religious history into accounts of phenomena which had formerly beensecularized.
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Firstly, it identies thesecularizedand individuated body as the common bond between sufferers and relievers.
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Eliade declares that modern humanity too is religious : ' modernsecularizedhumanity still occupies a sacred dimension ' (227).
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In the realm of the dominant ideology, now 'secularized', albeit still partisan, we can detect some of the same features of kingship and queenship.
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Somewhat ironically, the religious right originated amongst those fundamentalists sufficientlysecularizedto fight for their beliefs in the political arena.
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The organization of the state and the administration of law and education were allsecularizedin the reform period between 1923 and 1935.
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One suspects that there would have been some crossover between the readerships of, for example, didactic godly lives, cheap criminal stories and thesecularizedlife of a poetess.
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It marks a transition from a strictly physicotheological reading of nature in his youth towards asecularizedview on nature later on, transferring transcendental qualities to immanent features of nature.
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National festivities resumed, and, although some practices of the people became moresecularized, most cold, formal religion came to an end.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The priory was simplysecularizedand the work of the hospitals continued.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The abbey becamesecularizedin the 16th century and in the beginning of the 17th century was turned into a secular lordship.
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