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Secularisation

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: secularization.
2.
Transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession.  Synonym: secularization.





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"Secularisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Plebeians. Work of Pontifices in third century: (1) admission of new deities, (2) compilation of annals, (3) collection of religious formulae. General result; formalisation of religion; and secularisation of ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler
... their local and independent means of charity.[74] Licences to beg were at that time granted to deserving persons; and it is noticeable that this measure was in a few years followed by the petition to Henry IV. for the secularisation of ecclesiastical property.[75] Thus early in our history had the regular clergy forgotten the nature of their mission, and the object for which the administration of the nation's charities had been committed ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude


Words linked to "Secularisation" :   change, secularise, transference, transfer


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