All 7 Uses
secular
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- Secular literature was forbidden, and the Hasidim lived shut off from the rest of the world.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- But even after he learned German he was not satisfied, because the reading of secular books was forbidden.†
Chpt 2.6
- The Samson Raphael Hirsch Seminary and College was the only yeshiva in the United States that offered a secular college education.†
Chpt 2.7
- My father had told me once that it had been built in the early twenties by a group of Orthodox Jews who wanted their sons to have both a Jewish and a secular education.†
Chpt 2.7
- A secular Jewish state in my father's eyes is a sacrilege, a violation of the Torah.†
Chpt 2.12
- Reb Saunders didn't mind his son reading forbidden books, but never would he let his son be the friend of the son of a man who was advocating the establishment of a secular Jewish state run by Jewish goyim.†
Chpt 3.13
- Reb Saunders had drawn the line not at secular literature, not at Freud—assuming he knew somehow that Danny had been reading Freud—but at Zionism.†
Chpt 3.13
Definitions:
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(1)
(secular as in: a secular organization) not religious
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, secular means not a member of the clergy or not belonging to a specific religious order.
Also rarely, secular can reference long time spans in various senses such as:- a one-time rather than a cyclical event -- such as "a secular decrease in real estate prices" or "a secular rather than a periodic planetary perturbation"
- a once-in-an-age or once per century event -- such as "The Secular Games of Rome"
In physics, secular equilibrium refers to a state where a radioactive isotope decays at the same rate at which it is produced.