laical

adjective

variants or laic
Definition of laicalnext
as in irreligious

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laical
  1. irreligious
  2. secular
  3. lay
  4. pagan
  5. godless
  6. nondenominational
  7. nonsectarian
  8. temporal
Adjective
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
    Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Definition of irreligious
Adjective
  • Explore Hendersonville 13 of 18 Cary, North Carolina A testament to the city’s enthusiasm for the holidays, each year, Cary doubles its number of oversize ornaments—these decorations champion its diverse population, with nods to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and secular celebrations.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Hals, too, painted the faces of a new secular élite that sought to flatter itself with the permanence of oil painting; Hals, too, caught the abundance as well as the wobbling precarity of his clients’ world, the sense that all this could tumble down tomorrow.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of secular
Adjective
  • The best choice would be someone the public and media can relate to, possibly someone on the church leadership team who is a lay leader.
    Joseph Marchelewski, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Popular tech bloggers can help simplify your product for lay audiences.
    Jessica Wong, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of lay
Adjective
  • Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.
    Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Defense attorneys for Allen have argued authorities arrested the wrong person and claimed that Odinism, a pagan Norse religion that has been linked to White supremacist groups, could be a theory connected to the killings, court documents show.
    Nicole Chavez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of pagan
Adjective
  • Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of godless
Adjective
  • Former President Donald Trump grew up a mainline Presbyterian but began identifying as a nondenominational Christian near the end of his presidency.
    Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In 2002, two Rhema graduates founded Faith Church Ruston, a nondenominational church in Ruston, Louisiana.
    Laura Bullard, Vox, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of nondenominational
Adjective
  • For decades in California, those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • By the 1970s, however, Christian private schools outnumbered the nonsectarian ones, which inspired political activism among Christian evangelists who had shown little political interest previously.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of nonsectarian
Adjective
  • Such temporal variability only reinforced the Republican belief that the count was unfair.
    Chris Jackson, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This technique, called transcranial temporal interference electric stimulation (tTIS), non-invasively sends pulses into the brain without causing discomfort to the patient.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of temporal
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