secularizing
present 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
Examplesofsecularizing
secularizing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The fear of losing one's faith can be a destructive force in asecularizingworld; it can hand over entire communities to venomous identity politics.
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What is the cultural significance of the possibility of interpreting interest in the pre-rational in contrasting ways, as asecularizingand as a desecularizing phenomenon?
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Thesecularizingpractices of the city council (in the mundane issue of burial location) preceded the theory of territorialism that justified it.
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One reason for their historiographical disassociation has been that the major historians of classical republicanism have tended to treat it as a secular, orsecularizing, ideological force.
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He sees (more precisely, he argues that contemporaries had seen) thesecularizingpotential of scientific pursuits in terms of the time and energy allocated to such pursuits.
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Bourneville was mostly interested in improving buildings,secularizingthe staff of hospitals, and promoting the right to cremation.
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In the past historians have tended to see the radical ideas of the 1640s as being primarily concerned with social and political issues, and generallysecularizingin tendency.
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After the monastic assetssecularizingact of 1863, the monastery was dismantled; its church, however, was sparred.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Translation, thus, is seen not just as an instrument of democratizing andsecularizingknowledge, but also of empowering languages and speech communities.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Implementing the report's recommendations necessitatedsecularizingthe province's educational system, which had largely been run by religious organizations.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The construction of these structures violated the normal rules of sacredness of plaza space by enclosing part of the plaza andsecularizingit into elite residential space.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Francis was not alone in opposition to this lax andsecularizingtendency.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Peter required priests to report traitorous confessions, but he did not push his ability to control to the limit, for example abstaining fromsecularizingchurch lands.
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- breadth of interest
- breadth of knowledge
- breadth of vision
- breadwinner
- break
- breakable
- break-above-below
- break above/below sth
- breakage
- break a leg
- break-a-leg
- break a/the record
- break-a-the-record
- break away
- breakaway
- break-away
- break-back
- breakbeat
- break bread
- break-bread
- break bulk cargo
- break-bulk-cargo
- break clause
- break-clause
- break cover