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secularity

noun

Etymology

From secular + -ity. Compare French sécularité, Latin saecularitas.

  1. derived from saeculāris — “of the age”
  2. derived from seculer
  3. inherited from seculer
  4. suffixed as secularity — “secular + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state of being secular.

    • a secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible
    • The Biblical Song of Songs, the secularity of which is so apparent, and which, inasmuch as it is a part of the Bible, could not be suppressed, was classified as "sacred" by ascribing to it an allegorical interpretation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA