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- verb Present participle of
secularize .
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What would one label the secularizing of a Christian heritage nation?
magic-city-news.com 2009
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What would one label the secularizing of a Christian heritage nation?
magic-city-news.com 2009
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(Luxembourg is next to go/And (who knows?) maybe Monaco/We'll try to stay serene and calm/When Alabama gets the bomb) to the idea of secularizing liturgical music in "The Vatican Rag":
Spencer Green: The Enduring Satiric Genius of Tom Lehrer Spencer Green 2011
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(Luxembourg is next to go/And (who knows?) maybe Monaco/We'll try to stay serene and calm/When Alabama gets the bomb) to the idea of secularizing liturgical music in "The Vatican Rag":
Spencer Green: The Enduring Satiric Genius of Tom Lehrer Spencer Green 2011
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The German princes who lost territory were to be indemnified by "secularizing" German ecclesiastical states, and vied with one another in imploring favors of the conqueror.
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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As for "secularizing" food ... that's not a problem for anyone except religious nuts and fanatics.
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Act) and discussion in the Legislature, a Bill was passed providing for the interests of these claimants, but "secularizing" the remaining proceeds of the reserves to municipal purposes.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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During the rapidly secularizing 20th century, as divorce and sex outside of marriage became accepted a process accelerated during the 1960s by rebellion against convention and efficient birth control, the Romantic championing of all-consuming human love, once mostly the province of disheveled geniuses, became democratized.
Isn't Love Divine Charlotte Allen 2011
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The move showed the undermanned and underfunded Mr. Gingrich striving to win over evangelical Christians, some of whom blame the courts for secularizing American society, while trying to maintain excitement for his candidacy among other conservative voters.
Rivals Diverge on Late Tactics in Iowa Neil King Jr. 2011
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Yet what secularizing beliefs generally do is untie individuals from past dogma, encourage personal autonomy, and prioritize the present over a past or future.
Grant Brooke, M.Div.: The Case for the Prosperity Gospel M.Div. Grant Brooke 2010
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