Worldy vs Secular - What's the difference?
worldy | secular |
(rare)
*{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Marguerite Stockman Dickson, title=Vocational Guidance for Girls, chapter=, edition=
, passage=For these worldy advantages you offer, I will sell you my body and my soul. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1992, date=November 27, author=Ted Shen, title=Yo-Yo Ma, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 30, author=Tom Shone, title=The Big Sleepover, work=New York Times
, passage=Already on her second marriage when she met Chandler, she was worldy , sexually wise and 18 years his senior, a fact he apparently didn’t know until after they were married. }} Not specifically religious.
Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
(Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
Happening once in an age or century.
Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
* 2006 , The Economist,
(literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
* 1899 ,
(astrophysics) Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
(atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
* 2000 , S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy'', in ''New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
As adjectives the difference between worldy and secular
is that worldy is (rare) while secular is not specifically religious.As a noun secular is
a secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.worldy
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* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- secular clergy in Catholicism
- The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
- The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
- ''on a secular basis
Economics focus: Dividing the pie
- The skewed distribution of productivity gains is thus less a new phenomenon than a secular trend.
- The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.
- The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ?? and ?? are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
Synonyms
* (not religious) worldlyAntonyms
* nonsecular * (not religious) religious * (not religious) sacred (used especially of music) * (not bound by monastic vows) monastic * (not bound by monastic vows) regular (as regular clergy in Catholicism) * eternal, everlasting * frequent * unpredictable * non-recurring * (finance) short-term * (finance) cyclicalReferences
*Webster's English Dictionary
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(en noun)- (Burke)
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