Definition of secularist in English:
secularist
noun ˈsɛkjʊlərɪstˈsɛkjələrəst
A person who advocates separation of the state from religious institutions.
secularists wanted religious reform as the first step to a secular society
Example sentencesExamples
- Secularists don't want to be told that they are all sinners.
- For liberal secularists committed to the separation of church and state, this was a big victory.
- The long conservative debate with liberals and secularists gave the movement more than a tinge of rationalism and empiricism.
- Our words and actions will support secularists in their principled stand against fundamentalists.
- Religion in the former sense is a cement for communal harmony, and not otherwise as some modernists and secularists believe.
- The secularists there have not underestimated religion, they have just made the mistake of believing they could control everything with the army.
- Jefferson is usually identified with the enlightened secularists who sought to protect a secular vision of life from the tyranny of the churches.
- The true secularist's distrust of the 'order of prophecy' can turn his indifference towards religion into actual disdain and contempt.
- I believe all secularists, all progressives and socialists should fight these attacks.
- His exploits might have brought tears to many secularists looking desperately to reaffirm their faith in a pluralist society.
adjective ˈsɛkjʊlərɪstˈsɛkjələrəst
Advocating or relating to separation of the state from religious institutions.
Example sentencesExamples
- This perspective has taken issue with the secularist position.
- Secularist rationalism and the growth of constructive atheism have created a spiritual vacuum obvious to religious believers.
- Will you have to fall back on a secularist position, saying that there is no religious way of legitimating the American regime?
- I call upon all secularist forces and freedom-lovers to stand up and protest against the setting up of these tribunals in Canada.
- Doing away with these books is top on the secularist agenda.
- He rose from solicitor's clerk and part-time secularist lecturer to become one of the most formidable public speakers and unofficial legal advocates in Victorian Britain.
- Other European nations came to blows with the Church over secularist legislation.
- Since the end of the First World War, strong secularist tendencies have been evident.
- He was a secularist dictator, not a fundamentalist.
- He was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, the son of a secularist tailor.
Definition of secularist in US English:
secularist
nounˈsɛkjələrəstˈsekyələrəst
A person who advocates separation of the state from religious institutions.
secularists wanted religious reform as the first step to a secular society
Example sentencesExamples
- The long conservative debate with liberals and secularists gave the movement more than a tinge of rationalism and empiricism.
- Jefferson is usually identified with the enlightened secularists who sought to protect a secular vision of life from the tyranny of the churches.
- Secularists don't want to be told that they are all sinners.
- The true secularist's distrust of the 'order of prophecy' can turn his indifference towards religion into actual disdain and contempt.
- Our words and actions will support secularists in their principled stand against fundamentalists.
- His exploits might have brought tears to many secularists looking desperately to reaffirm their faith in a pluralist society.
- Religion in the former sense is a cement for communal harmony, and not otherwise as some modernists and secularists believe.
- For liberal secularists committed to the separation of church and state, this was a big victory.
- The secularists there have not underestimated religion, they have just made the mistake of believing they could control everything with the army.
- I believe all secularists, all progressives and socialists should fight these attacks.
adjectiveˈsɛkjələrəstˈsekyələrəst
Advocating or relating to separation of the state from religious institutions.
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, the son of a secularist tailor.
- Since the end of the First World War, strong secularist tendencies have been evident.
- This perspective has taken issue with the secularist position.
- Doing away with these books is top on the secularist agenda.
- Other European nations came to blows with the Church over secularist legislation.
- He rose from solicitor's clerk and part-time secularist lecturer to become one of the most formidable public speakers and unofficial legal advocates in Victorian Britain.
- Secularist rationalism and the growth of constructive atheism have created a spiritual vacuum obvious to religious believers.
- He was a secularist dictator, not a fundamentalist.
- Will you have to fall back on a secularist position, saying that there is no religious way of legitimating the American regime?
- I call upon all secularist forces and freedom-lovers to stand up and protest against the setting up of these tribunals in Canada.