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secularity|sɛkjʊˈlærɪtɪ|
Forms: 4 seculerte, 6–7 secularitie, 6– secularity.
[a. F. sécularité (1332 in Hatz.-Darm; there may have been an AF. *seculerté, whence Wyclif's form), or directly ad. med.L. sæculāritās, f. L. sæculāris secular a.: see -ity.]
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†1. Secular jurisdiction or power. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 385 How þai [sc. clerks] bissyen hem to be kyngis in her owne, & reioycen hem fulle myche in þat cyuylite or seculerte. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 458 That kirkmen suld nocht be No way subjectit to secularitie.
2. The condition or quality of being secular.
a. Occupation with secular affairs (on the part of clergymen); secular spirit or behaviour. Also occas. in wider application: Worldliness, absence of religious principle or feeling.
1395[Purvey] Remonstrance (1851) 147 Seculerte among prelatis and curatis so that oon take to himsilf alle the profitis of a chirche. 1636Unbishop. Timothy & Titus 30 Your Lordly Pompe,..luxury, secularity, suppression of preaching. 1690E. Gee Jesuit's Mem. 123 The Bishop's own Person..[should be far] from..the prophanity and secularity of others, as Hawking, Hunting,..and the like. 1711G. Hickes Two Treat. ii. (1847) 231 This secularity of the clergy in complying with the..vanities..of the age. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. ii. 53 Sloth, pride, and secularity, have crept upon those [clergy] to whom mankind should look up for patterns of purity and heavenly-mindedness. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. iv. 80 Jocelin, we see, is not without secularity: Our Dominus Abbas was intent enough on the divine offices; but then his Account-Books—? 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiv. 497 The tendency to secularity which beset all the Teutonic Churches from the beginning. 1882Seeley Nat. Relig. 235 There is a Lower Life, of which the animating principle is secularity, or—in the popular sense of the word—materialism.
†b. Lay character (of persons claiming to be in holy orders). Obs. rare—1.
1616A. Champney Voc. Bps. 152 For the more cleare proofe of the meere secularitie, and pure nullitie of the pretended cleargy of England, as well as of other falsly reformed churches: I will here examine the ordination of them.
c. Secular or non-sacred character; absence of connexion with religion.
1879Sat. Mus. Rev. 6 Sept. 504 At times..the music is really elevating, when suddenly we are back again into secularity. 1910Spectator 25 June 1075/1 To insist..on the secularity of the State can only help to degrade it.
3. A secular matter. Chiefly pl. Secular affairs; worldly possessions or pursuits.
1511Colet Serm. Conforming B j, If you haue any secular besynes, ordeyne them to be iuges that be mooste in contemt in y⊇ churche..of this secularitie. 1640Bp. Hall Episc. iii. viii. 267 How much are we beholden to these kinde friends, who are so desirous to ease us of these unproper secularities? 1828E. Irving Last Days 144 As to the ordination of elders, or priests, how do men seek the office for mere..advancement in the secularities of life! 1840J. J. Gurney in Mem. (1854) II. 228 My secularities afford me many large opportunities of helping others. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago x, The morning he [the Curate] spent at the school, or in parish secularities. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 401 To throw a golden halo round the secularity of the hour. 1878R. Braithwaite Life W. Pennefather xi. 248 It was a rule with him..that no secularity should be permitted to intrude on the Lord's day.
†4. The civil authority or body. Obs.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 380 The chiefe Officer of the Secularitie is the Palatine of Hungaria. 1637Bastwick Litany i. 11, I intend speedily to write unto the secularity of that ancient city [i.e. Babylon], and dedicate my method of Physick to it.
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5. The character of having long periods.
1844Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. vi. (1876) 147 Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to..exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. |