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secularization

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sec=u=lar=i=za=tion

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun secularization has 2 senses

secularization(n = noun.act) secularisation - the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion; Array

is a kind of change

Derived form verb secularize₁

secularization(n = noun.act) secularisation - transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession; Array

is a kind of transfer, transference

Derived form verb secularize₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

secularization, n. [Cf. F. sécularisation.].

The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property. [1913 Webster]

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ROGET THESAURUS

secularization

Laity

N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.

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