adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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more
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Such ideas might be translated into a more secular context nearer home.
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We live in a much more secular society now and the vicar is no longer the local personality.
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Consequently, there is a trend towards a wider and rather more secular choice of repertoire.
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authority
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The secular authorities needed priests who could attract the loyalty of their parishioners.
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The elder's secular authority is very significantly reinforced by his monopolistic control of the relations between men and the ancestors.
building
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Harris did all the preliminary research and visited the secular buildings , Pevsner confined himself to churches and medieval domestic buildings.
humanism
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The problem of wife abuse is not one of feminism, secular humanism or a lack of headship in the home.
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By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.
music
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And as we shall see in the next chapter, his secular music was at least equally various.
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Originally, chamber music meant secular music, or that of the court as distinct from that of the Church.
power
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The challenge to its authority increased its reliance upon the secular power , upon fines, torture, and execution.
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Taken together, these changes represented a decisive shift in favour of the secular power .
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The earthly commonwealth being a reflection of the divine, secular power was therefore subordinate to spiritual.
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The idea of secular power in itself meant little before the propagandists of the eleventh-century papal reform mounted their assault on it.
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He had only to wait until this conference of sacred and secular powers was over.
ruler
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Both Luther and Calvin accepted that secular rulers had no jurisdiction over spiritual matters.
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It did not imitate the variability of the secular rulers who thought only of temporal gain.
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But this quasi-sacerdotal character was no longer an important aid to the power of secular rulers .
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It was also in the interest of secular rulers that Catholic orthodoxy was maintained.
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The response of the secular rulers depended on a wide variety of factors, but mostly it was conditioned by political considerations.
society
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This is largely absent in today's secular society .
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The delights of a secular society seem so appealing; technology appears to deliver the goods.
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We live in a much more secular society now and the vicar is no longer the local personality.
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Q: Are you telling me that Darcy's Utopia will be a secular society ?
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A: Yes, Darcy's Utopia will be a secular society .
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In a secular society these practices have been weakened for many, leaving us bewildered about how to handle our grief.
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His sop to secular society is full of contradictions.
state
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He is adamant that any open manifestation of religious or cultural identity at school goes against the principles of secular state education.
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Yet the irreligious Jinnah wanted two religious states , while the religious Gandhi would countenance only a united secular state.
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They have always seen themselves as the guardians of the modern secular state founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1920s.
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Mobilizing the media and millions of teachers to explain Article 18 would have meant explaining the philosophical basis of the secular state .
world
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There it is difficult to separate the secular world from the sacred.
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The secular world was falling apart.
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In other words, Hardaker wants to adopt the best of those personnel systems employed by the secular world .
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The priesthood of central computing has already given way to a secular world of laypeople playing with multiplying microprocessors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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secular music
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The government is secular .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, he might have added, a special kind of secular salvation.
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Harris did all the preliminary research and visited the secular buildings, Pevsner confined himself to churches and medieval domestic buildings.
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Knowledge is no longer sacred but secular .
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The priesthood of central computing has already given way to a secular world of laypeople playing with multiplying microprocessors.
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The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.
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Twenty-six women from the church and secular press, radio and television agencies participated.
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Without doubt, the latter development represents a secular change in the strategic environment of profound importance.
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Yet the irreligious Jinnah wanted two religious states, while the religious Gandhi would countenance only a united secular state.