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- verb Alternative spelling of
secularize .
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- verb make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
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Examples
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The whole purpose of the second Vatican council was to "secularise" Christianity; to make it less confrontational with other faiths.
Spectator Live 2009
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The landlord who bought himself a medieval abbey after the dissolution of the monasteries could happily secularise it by adding pagan detail.
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We can cheer two more victories in the campaign to secularise everything in Europe except its temples and churches, which are, in any case, either neglected or swamped by tourists blind to their mysteries.
A little bit of religious bigotry is tolerable in a healthy society 2010
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Such a non-violent revolution could secularise the state, separating it from religion, and revolutionise religion itself by redefining Islam as a discourse of freedom and a method not for obtaining and managing power, but for expanding freedom.
Mahmood Delkhasteh: The 21st Century's First Authentic Revolution 2009
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It was on this historic day that protestors began to secularise one of the most popular slogans of the 1979 revolution, changing it from 'independence, freedom, Islamic republic' to 'independence, freedom, Iranian Republic'.
Mahmood Delkhasteh: Iran's Not-Yet-Revolution: Cause for Optimism 2009
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Or will we, as Ken MacLeod posits in The Night Sessions, go to war and in the aftermath completely secularise society?
Gods and Robots – The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009
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The presenter, who was replaced on the Radio 2 show in 2006 by Aled Jones, claimed the broadcaster was trying to 'secularise the country'.
BBC loves Islam...and hates Christianity.... GayandRight 2009
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I am a Christian and I mind very much that there is a move to secularise Christmas … and I am delighted to see other faiths not only having their own Festivals but insisting that they are happy for us to have ours.
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I am a Christian and I mind very much that there is a move to secularise Christmas … and I am delighted to see other faiths not only having their own Festivals but insisting that they are happy for us to have ours.
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I am a Christian and I mind very much that there is a move to secularise Christmas … and I am delighted to see other faiths not only having their own Festivals but insisting that they are happy for us to have ours.
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