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secular
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secular as in:  a secular organization

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  • All her attempts to bring Max around to a less secular way of life had so far fallen on deaf ears.  (source)
  • On the other hand, secular histories tended to overlook spiritual movements like Mormonism altogether.  (source)
  • Their weird library had St. Exupéry but nothing so secular as an atlas of the world, so I had to work from memory.  (source)
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  • There are a few congregants who've discovered another way to get ahead, to get that house, and a bigger one after it-the secular way, by studying hard, going to a top college and maybe graduate school, by networking, strategizing, and matching preparation with opportunity.  (source)
    secular = non-religious
  • Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic[501] and Ptolemaic schemes[502] for her large style.†  (source)
  • To be honest, I had split religion along the seam of secular and nonsecular; choosing to concentrate on the beauty of a Caravaggio without noticing the Madonna and child; or finding the best lamb recipe for a lavish Easter dinner, without thinking about the Passion.†  (source)
    nonsecular = religious
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonsecular means not and reverses the meaning of secular. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • But riding high above all secular controversies was a faith in One who was the Creator, the Giver of Life, the Omnipotent.  (source)
    secular = non-religious
  • Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic[501] and Ptolemaic schemes[502] for her large style.†  (source)
  • But I can imagine my father saying his no, no, it was clearly Kwang's Confucian training at work, his secular religion of pure hierarchy, his belief that everyone is at once a noble and a servant and then just a man.  (source)
  • Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz.  (source)
  • She proposed that, when the fall school term started, I should be enrolled in the religious school rather than a secular one.  (source)
  • He nodded the head solemnly and vanished for the second time, to return on all fours: in a few moments with a learned volume, the only secular work in his possession.  (source)
  • Besides, it was Sunday; and there was something about Bartleby that forbade the supposition that he would by any secular occupation violate the proprieties of the day.  (source)
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