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secularization


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Secularization  \Sec`u*lar*i*za"tion\,  n.  [Cf.  F. 
  s['e]cularisation.] 
  The  act  of  rendering  secular,  or  the  state  of  being  rendered 
  secular;  conversion  from  regular  or  monastic  to  secular; 
  conversion  from  religious  to  lay  or  secular  possession  and 
  uses;  as  the  secularization  of  church  property. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  secularization 
  n  :  transfer  of  property  from  ecclesiastical  to  civil  possession 
  [syn:  {secularisation}] 




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