secularize

secularize is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 24 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
2. transitive verb. To convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.
3. transitive verb. To make worldly or unspiritual.
4. verb. make secular and draw away from a religious orientation

   "Ataturk secularized Turkey"

   Synonyms: secularise

5. verb. transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control

   Synonyms: desacralize

Synonyms

secularise, desacralize

Common word forms

secularized, secularizer, secularizes, secularizing

Words from these letters

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