English-French translations for secular

• séculier
  Ils suscitent de graves inquiétudes quant au caractère séculier de l'État indien. They raise very worrying issues about India as a secular state.
  L'arabité est un concept séculier, ce qui peut faciliter nos relations. Arab identity is a secular concept, which can make our relationship easier.
  On insiste de toutes parts sur l'importance du rôle de l'armée dans la préservation de l'État séculier. Many quarters point to the important role of the military in guarding the secular State.
• laïc
  laïcité de l'État et de ses institutions, the secular nature of the state and its institutions
  L'Albanie est, dans la pratique, un pays laïc. Albania is, after all, a secular country in practice.
  C'est une règle de base de la laïcité. This is a basic rule of secularity.
• laïque
  La Syrie est également un État laïque. Syria is also a secular regime.
  Il a fondé un parti libéral et laïque. He founded a liberal, secular party.
  La Turquie ne souhaite plus être un pays laïque. Turkey does not want to be a secular country any longer.
• mondain
• neutre
• profane
• séculaire
  L' Europe est une communauté séculaire, une communauté fondée sur l' égalité des droits, la liberté religieuse et l' ouverture. Europe is a secular Community, a Community of equal rights, religious freedom and openness.
  L’Europe n’est pas construite en désaccord avec la réalité séculaire des nations présentes sur notre continent. Europe is not being built at variance with the secular reality of the nations on our continent.
  Je pense que ces problèmes peuvent être atténués et que la tradition séculaire peut l'emporter. I believe that these problems can be reduced and that the secular tradition can prevail.

Definition of secular

• Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical
• 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
• Centuries-old, ancient
• Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field
• Unperturbed over time
• 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

Examples

• 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

Related words

• secularism
• secularization
• secularize
• secularized
• postsecular
• secularist
• secularity
• secularly
• antisecular