secular

Word family

1 RRELIGIONnot connected with or controlled by a church or other religious authority 世俗的，非宗教的；不受教会管辖的

secular education

世俗教育

our modern secular society

我们的现代世俗社会

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2. RRCa secular priest lives among ordinary people, rather than with other priests in a monastery 〔教士〕在俗的，不住在修道院内的

Examples from the Corpus

secular• The government is secular.• Knowledge is no longer sacred but secular.• Harris did all the preliminary research and visited the secular buildings, Pevsner confined himself to churches and medieval domestic buildings.• Without doubt, the latter development represents a secular change in the strategic environment of profound importance.• secular music• The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.• Twenty-six women from the church and secular press, radio and television agencies participated.• And, he might have added, a special kind of secular salvation.• Yet the irreligious Jinnah wanted two religious states, while the religious Gandhi would countenance only a united secular state.• The priesthood of central computing has already given way to a secular world of laypeople playing with multiplying microprocessors.

Origin secular

(1300-1400) Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis “coming once in an age”, from saeculum “breed, generation”

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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 5841 COCA: 4219

secular

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be世俗

ADVERB

➤completely, entirely, purely, strictly完全／徹底／純粹／絕對世俗化

◇It began as a religious organization, but these days it is purely secular.它建立之初是個宗教組織，但如今已經完全世俗化了。

➤largely, mostly在很大程度上／基本上世俗化

◇We live in a largely secular society.我們生活在一個主流世俗化的社會裏。

➤increasingly越來越世俗化

TOEFL IELTS BNC: 5841 COCA: 4219

secular

Not religious and not holy: secular, irreverent, agnostic...