2. The tenets or principles of the secularists.

Sec"u*lar*ist, n. One who theoretically rejects every form of religious

faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts

and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who

believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be

managed without the introduction of a religious element.

Sec`u*lar"i*ty (?), n. [Cf.F. sécularité, LL. saecularitas.] Supreme

attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

A secularity of character which makes Christianity and its

principal doctrines distasteful or unintelligible.

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