nonecclesiastical

Definition of nonecclesiasticalnext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonecclesiastical
Adjective
  • Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
    Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
    Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Adjective
  • Though editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (a Yorgos Lanthimos regular) cuts the film with brisk concision, there’s also a welcome temporal elasticity here — the sense that life can change in the blink of an eye, but also stall for undefined passages.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • The researchers fed this millennium-long data into a computer model to determine how much stress has built up along the faults in that temporal window.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • In lay terms, that means the court's ruling is not based on whether the judge approves or disapproves of what Comb's is accused of.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • However, lay reading is not the way that people have, historically speaking, interfaced with the classics.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
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“Nonecclesiastical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonecclesiastical. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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