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Definition of Secularisation

1. Noun. The activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion.

2. Noun. Transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession.

Definition of Secularisation

1. Noun. (alternative form of secularization) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secularisation

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secular Jews secular equilibrium secular games secular humanism secular progressivism secularisation (current term) secularise secularised secularises secularising

secularism secularisms secularist secularistic secularists secularities secularity secularizable secularization secularizations

Literary usage of Secularisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The Treaty of Lunéville provided that the dispossessed princes should be indemnified, and that the policy of " secularisation " should be put into force. ..."

2. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Acts of secularisation.—The holding of property to charitable uses, and the holdings of corporations under licenses in mortmain or other statutory authority ..."

3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Acts of secularisation.—Tlie holding of property to charitable uses, and the holdings of corporations under licenses in mortmain or other statutory ..."

4. Church and State: Their Relations Historically Developed by Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken (1877)
"EFFECTS OP THE FRENCH REVOLUTION ON GERMANY secularisation of Church Property—Secret Treaty between France and Prussia—treaty of Campo Formio—Congress of ..."

5. History of the Germanic Empire by Samuel Astley Dunham (1835)
"To appease him, he was enabled by Sweden to obtain the secularisation of one archbishopric, Magdeburg; and of three bishoprics, Halberstadt, Minden, ..."

6. The Ritschlian Theology, Critical and Constructive: An Exposition and an by Alfred Ernest Garvie (1899)
"Gnosticism, on the one hand, attempted to create an apostolic doctrine and a Christian theology, an attempt described as " the acute secularisation of ..."

7. Essays, Chiefly Literary and Ethical by Aubrey De Vere (1889)
"VII CHURCH PROPERTY & secularisation [1867. ... In dealing with Ireland it means that the Religious Equality should be reached, not by the secularisation ..."

8. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"A scheme of secularisation was prepared in view of the autumn session, which if carried into effect would have altered the whole face of society. ..."

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