different between puritan vs secular

English

Etymology

See Puritan.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pj???t?n/, /?pj??t?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pj????t?n/, /?pj????t?n/
• Hyphenation: pu?ri?tan

Noun

puritan (plural puritans)

1. (often disapproving) A puritanical person.
   • 2016 5 August, Janet Street-Porter, "Anxious young people may be having less sex than ever before, but we baby boomers are still obsessed with it", The Independent.

     These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.

Translations

Adjective

puritan (comparative more puritan, superlative most puritan)

1. (often disapproving) Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex.

   Synonyms: prude, puritanical

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• tanpuri, train up, uptrain

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puritan m (definite singular puritanen, indefinite plural puritanar, definite plural puritanane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by puritanar

Romanian

Etymology

From French puritain

Noun

puritan m (plural puritani)

1. puritan

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• sæcular (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saecul?ris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?kj?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?kj?l??/

Adjective

secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)

1. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
2. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
3. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.

4. Happening once in an age or century.

5. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
   • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501

     In this event, the ${\displaystyle s\phi (k)}$ curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the ${\displaystyle \lambda k}$ ray and also in larger values of ${\displaystyle {\bar {k}}}$.
6. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
7. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
   • 2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235:

     Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter was not secular after all; the observations at hand had covered only a fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years.

8. (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

     The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ?_? and ?_? are derived from eqn.(21) by ...

Synonyms

• (not religious): worldly
• (centuries old): plurisecular, multisecular

Antonyms

• 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): cyclical

Derived terms

• multisecular
• paleosecular
• plurisecular
• secularism
• secularist
• secularize
• secularly
• semisecular

Translations

Noun

secular (plural seculars)

1. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

2. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)

3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

Translations

References

• secular at OneLook Dictionary Search
• secular in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• secular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Webster's English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Clauser, cesural, recusal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?.ku?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se.ku?la?/

Adjective

secular (masculine and feminine plural seculars)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularitzar
• secularment

Further reading

• “secular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “secular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “secular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “secular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris.

Adjective

secular (plural seculares, comparable)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularizar
• secularmente

Further reading

• “secular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French séculaire, from Latin saecularis.

Adjective

secular m or n (feminine singular secular?, masculine plural seculari, feminine and neuter plural seculare)

1. secular

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saecul?ris. Doublet of seglar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seku?la?/, [se.ku?la?]

Adjective

secular (plural seculares)

1. secular

Derived terms

• secularizar
• secularmente

Further reading

• “secular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.