secularity

secularity

English

Etymology

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

Noun

secularity (countable and uncountable, plural secularities)

  1. The state of being secular.
    • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
      a secularity of character which makes Christianity and its principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible
    • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 359:
      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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