All 6 Uses
secular
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The Black Widow
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- It would be better to have a house in the secular belt of suburbs along the Coastal Plain, or a large apartment in one of the smart new towers that seemed to sprout overnight along the sea in Tel Aviv.†
p. 60.9
- The next to arrive was a secular Israeli man, thirty-five or so, an oxygen mask over his face, a bullet in his chest, conscious, breathing, but just barely.†
p. 119.9
- In that time, two of his victims succumbed to their wounds down the hallway in the trauma center—the older of the Haredim, and the secular Israeli who had been mistakenly shot.†
p. 122.5
- She decided to take the veil, which shocked her secular mother.†
p. 171.1
- Instead, she explained that her parents were secular and that she did not discover the beauty of the Koran until she was at university.†
p. 232.4
- He joined the secular resistance and, later, al-Qaeda in Iraq, where he met and befriended Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.†
p. 318.1 *
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.