secolare — meaning in English

English meaning

• profane adjective Showing disrespect for sacred or religious things.
• secular adj Not connected to religion; concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.

Senses

secolare is used for these senses in English:

• profane Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• secular Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.
• secular Happening once in an age or century.
• secular A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

profane — full definition

1. adjective Showing disrespect for sacred or religious things.
2. adjective Relating to ordinary, non-religious life rather than the sacred.
3. verb To treat something sacred with disrespect; to desecrate.

secular — full definition

1. adj Not connected to religion; concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.
2. adj Of a member of the clergy: living among ordinary people rather than under monastic vows.

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