secularityn.

/sɛkjʊˈlarɪti/

Forms: Middle English seculerte, 1500s–1600s secularitie, 1500s– secularity.

Etymology: < French sécularité (1332 in Hatzfeld and Darmesteter; there may have been an Anglo-Norman *seculerté , whence Wyclif's form), or directly < medieval Latin saeculāritās , < Latin saeculāris secular adj.: see -ity suffix.

I. Senses relating to the world.

†1. Secular jurisdiction or power. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal power > [noun] > temporal or secular

secular armc1290

secularityc1380

temporality1393

temporalty1396

civil magistrate1535

society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > jurisdiction of

secularityc1380

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 385 How þai [sc. clerks] bissyen hem to be kyngis in her owne, & reioycen hem fulle myche in þat cyuylite or seculerte.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 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 occasionally in wider application: Worldliness, absence of religious principle or feeling.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun]

secularity1395

sieclec1400

worldlishipa1425

worldliness?c1430

worldlihoodc1443

mundanity1506

secularness?1529

carnality1548

carnalness1549

earthliness1549

rudiments of the world1557

Sadduceeism1577

Sadducism1581

earthly-mindedness1603

temporalness1611

worldly-mindedness1621

corporality1628

unspiritualness1642

civility1644

corporeity1653

materialism1822

unspirituality1843

secularism1851

terrestrialism1856

temporalism1872

this-worldliness1872

despiritualization1874

this-worldism1883

this-worldness1930

1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 147 Seculerte among prelatis and curatis so that oon take to himsilf alle the profitis of a chirche.

1636 Unbishop. Timothy & Titus 30 Your Lordly Pompe,..luxury, secularity, suppression of preaching.

1690 E. 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.

1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. ii. 226 This Secularity of the Clergy in complying with the..Vanities..of the Age.

1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism ii. 53 Sloth, pride, and secularity, have crept upon those [clergy] to whom mankind should look up for patterns of purity and heavenly-mindedness.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present 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—?

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 497 The tendency to secularity which beset all the Teutonic Churches from the beginning.

1882 J. R. Seeley 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). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > condition of

temporaltyc1440

laity1616

secularity1616

layship1641

1616 A. Champney Treat. Vocation Bishops 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 connection with religion.

ΚΠ

1879 Sat. Mus. Rev. 6 Sept. 504 At times..the music is really elevating, when suddenly we are back again into secularity.

1910 Spectator 25 June 1075/1 To insist..on the secularity of the State can only help to degrade it.

3. A secular matter. Chiefly plural. Secular affairs; worldly possessions or pursuits.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > instance of

secularity?1530

civility1549

dispirituality1684

?1530 tr. J. Colet Serm. Conuocacion Paulis i. sig. Bi If you haue any secular besynes, ordeyne them to be iuges that be mooste in contempt in y^e churche...Of this secularitie..meny euils do folowe.

1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie iii. viii. 267 How much are we beholden to these kinde friends, who are so desirous to ease us of these unproper secularities?

1828 E. 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!

1840 J. J. Gurney in Mem. (1854) II. 228 My secularities afford me many large opportunities of helping others.

1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. x. 279 The morning he [the Curate] spent at the school, or in parish secularities.

1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 401 To throw a golden halo round the secularity of the hour.

1878 R. Braithwaite Life & Lett. 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun]

statea1538

governmenta1544

Gov.1587

Caesar1601

secularity1630

administration1649

govt.1705

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 380 The chiefe Officer of the Secularitie is the Palatine of Hungaria.

1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 11/2 I intend speedily, to write unto the secularity of that ancient city [i.e. Babylon], and dedicate my method of Physick to it.

II. Senses relating to ages or long periods of time.

5. The character of having long periods.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > [noun] > character of having long periods

secularity1844

1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 2nd Ser. vi. 147 Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to..exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	secularity
释义	secularityn. /sɛkjʊˈlarɪti/ Forms: Middle English seculerte, 1500s–1600s secularitie, 1500s– secularity. Etymology: < French sécularité (1332 in Hatzfeld and Darmesteter; there may have been an Anglo-Norman seculerté , whence Wyclif's form), or directly < medieval Latin saeculāritās* , < Latin saeculāris secular adj.: see -ity suffix. I. Senses relating to the world. †1. Secular jurisdiction or power. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal power > [noun] > temporal or secular secular armc1290 secularityc1380 temporality1393 temporalty1396 civil magistrate1535 society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > jurisdiction of secularityc1380 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 385 How þai [sc. clerks] bissyen hem to be kyngis in her owne, & reioycen hem fulle myche in þat cyuylite or seculerte. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 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 occasionally in wider application: Worldliness, absence of religious principle or feeling. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] secularity1395 sieclec1400 worldlishipa1425 worldliness?c1430 worldlihoodc1443 mundanity1506 secularness?1529 carnality1548 carnalness1549 earthliness1549 rudiments of the world1557 Sadduceeism1577 Sadducism1581 earthly-mindedness1603 temporalness1611 worldly-mindedness1621 corporality1628 unspiritualness1642 civility1644 corporeity1653 materialism1822 unspirituality1843 secularism1851 terrestrialism1856 temporalism1872 this-worldliness1872 despiritualization1874 this-worldism1883 this-worldness1930 1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 147 Seculerte among prelatis and curatis so that oon take to himsilf alle the profitis of a chirche. 1636 Unbishop. Timothy & Titus 30 Your Lordly Pompe,..luxury, secularity, suppression of preaching. 1690 E. 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. 1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. (ed. 3) I. ii. 226 This Secularity of the Clergy in complying with the..Vanities..of the Age. 1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism ii. 53 Sloth, pride, and secularity, have crept upon those [clergy] to whom mankind should look up for patterns of purity and heavenly-mindedness. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present 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—? 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 497 The tendency to secularity which beset all the Teutonic Churches from the beginning. 1882 J. R. Seeley 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). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > [noun] > condition of temporaltyc1440 laity1616 secularity1616 layship1641 1616 A. Champney Treat. Vocation Bishops 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 connection with religion. ΚΠ 1879 Sat. Mus. Rev. 6 Sept. 504 At times..the music is really elevating, when suddenly we are back again into secularity. 1910 Spectator 25 June 1075/1 To insist..on the secularity of the State can only help to degrade it. 3. A secular matter. Chiefly plural. Secular affairs; worldly possessions or pursuits. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > instance of secularity?1530 civility1549 dispirituality1684 ?1530 tr. J. Colet Serm. Conuocacion Paulis i. sig. Bi If you haue any secular besynes, ordeyne them to be iuges that be mooste in contempt in y^e churche...Of this secularitie..meny euils do folowe. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie iii. viii. 267 How much are we beholden to these kinde friends, who are so desirous to ease us of these unproper secularities? 1828 E. 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! 1840 J. J. Gurney in Mem. (1854) II. 228 My secularities afford me many large opportunities of helping others. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. x. 279 The morning he [the Curate] spent at the school, or in parish secularities. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 401 To throw a golden halo round the secularity of the hour. 1878 R. Braithwaite Life & Lett. 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] statea1538 governmenta1544 Gov.1587 Caesar1601 secularity1630 administration1649 govt.1705 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 380 The chiefe Officer of the Secularitie is the Palatine of Hungaria. 1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 11/2 I intend speedily, to write unto the secularity of that ancient city [i.e. Babylon], and dedicate my method of Physick to it. II. Senses relating to ages or long periods of time. 5. The character of having long periods. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > character of having long periods secularity1844 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 2nd Ser. vi. 147 Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to..exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380
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