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/sˈɛkjələrɪst/ Listen

Secularist

noun

An advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education.

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"Secularist" Quotes from Famous Books

... authority as Mr. William Colenso sums up the old-time Maori as a secularist, it is not easy entirely to agree with him. Not only had the Maori, as already indicated, an elaborate—too elaborate—mythology, but he had a code of equally wide and minute observances which he actually ...

— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves

... estimate the extent to which these views are diffused. The statistics of the sale of secularist tracts would doubtless give an exaggerated idea of it. The high standard of morality advocated in them, so likely to attract rather than repel, the clear writing, and the agreement of the views with the experience afforded by the daily life of working men, give them power among the lower ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... his coup. And in the tranquillity of the hills, was he beginning to lose faith in the book, and the compensation it was to bring him? Unless this book, with its scathing analysis of the dangers and difficulties of the secularist State, were not only a book, but an event, of what use would it be to him? He was capable both of extravagant conceit, and of the most boundless temporary disgust with his own doings and ideas. Such a disgust seemed to be mounting now through all his veins, taking all the savour out ...

— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward

Words linked to "Secularist" : advocator, advocate, exponent, secularism, proponent