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Secularization

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: secularisation.
2.
Transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession.  Synonym: secularisation.






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"Secularization" Quotes from Famous Books



... majority of the people did not belong to that body, they could not see why it should be taken under the protecting care of the State, while every other denomination was left in the cold. Hence a clamour for the secularization of the Clergy Reserves began to be heard throughout the land. These, with many other questions, which were termed abuses, raised up a political party the members whereof came to be known as Radicals, and who, later, were stigmatized by the opposing party as Rebels. The party lines between ...
— Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago • Canniff Haight



Words linked to "Secularization" :   change, secularize, transfer, transference



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