secular authority

collocation in English

meaningsofsecularandauthority

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secular
adjective
uk
/ˈsek.jə.lər/us
/ˈsek.jə.lɚ/
not having any connection ...
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authority
noun
uk
/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us
/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition ofsecularandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsecular authority

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If that voice could have found unity, it could then have directed public action with an unchallengedsecularauthority.
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Like all worldly things, it belonged undersecularauthority.
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Secularauthoritywas denied "any right of autocratic interference" with this dharma.
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The challenge of spiritual tosecularauthorityis the form of the change itself, and the growth of theology provides the spiritual with its discourse.
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More importantly, the "religious liberties of the commons were assured" against infringement bysecularauthority.
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Locke's theory of the equivalence of religious and civil adiaphora was complemented by his deliberate failure to distinguish ecclesiastical fromsecularauthority.
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They have to go to the purelysecularauthorityand ask for consent in advance to what they propose to do.
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You are proposing to spend money upon what, after all, are secular objects, administered by thesecularauthority.
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It is not essential, but it is very desirable, and the only way to get that agreement is for thesecularauthorityto act after consultation with the religious authorities.
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It was entirely voluntary and not compelled by the collective diktat of an overbearing, authoritarian,secularauthorityor even, in later days, by the fairly potent directives of papal power.
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I believe it is the most shameless and indefensible interference in spiritual things attempted by a purelysecularauthoritythat has ever occurred in the history of this country.
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So there is a difficulty at least equal to that which he finds, a difficulty for thesecularauthority equal to that of the religious authority which he represents.
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At that same council, thelhard also presented a papal decision that asserted the freedom of churches fromsecularauthority.
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Some of the villagers still attempted to sabotage the vehicle but thesecularauthorityprevailed in the end.
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Film is a period drama that depicts timeless struggle between religion andsecularauthority, idealism and duplicity, eroticism and faith.
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The goal of these communities was to create perfect outposts of religious idealism where the wilderness would separate them from the interference of kings, parliaments, or any othersecularauthority.
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Enforcement, however, was the responsibility of the secular authorities and seems to have varied widely.
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The unrepentant and apostates could be relaxed tosecularauthority, however, opening the convicted to the possibility of various corporal punishments, up to and including being burned at the stake.
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Here blasphemy becomes the development and reformation of manners which occurs at the behest of secular authorities and processes of middling sort class formation.
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