"secularize" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-secularize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: secularizes [present, singular, third-person], secularizing [participle, present], secularized [participle, past], secularized [past]
Etymology: From secular + -ize. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|secular|-ize}} secular + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} secularize (third-person singular simple present secularizes, present participle secularizing, simple past and past participle secularized)
  1. (transitive) To make secular. Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Synonyms: secularise (english: non-Oxford British English) Hyponyms: deconsecrate & Thesaurus:desecrate Derived forms: desecularize, secularizable, secularizer, unsecularize Related terms: secular, secularization, laicize Translations (to make secular): laïcitzar (Catalan), secularitzar (Catalan), sekularisoida (Finnish), sekulaaristaa (Finnish), laïciser (French), séculariser (French), laicizar (Galician), secularizar (Galician), სეკულარიზებას უწევს (seḳularizebas uc̣evs) (Georgian), szekularizál (Hungarian), dí-eaglaisigh (Irish), laicizzare (Italian), secolarizzare (Italian), laicizar (Portuguese), laicificar (Portuguese), secularizar (Portuguese), laicizar (Spanish), secularizar (Spanish), sekularisera (Swedish), förvärldsliga (Swedish), סעקולאַריזירן (sekularizirn) (Yiddish), סעקוליאַריזירן (sekulyarizirn) (Yiddish), פֿאַרוועלטלעכן (farveltlekhn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-secularize-en-verb-94zsQZbL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Oxford spellings

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