nonclerical

adjective

Definition of nonclericalnext
as in lay

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonclerical
  1. lay
  2. godless
  3. irreligious
  4. pagan
  5. secular
  6. nondenominational
  7. nonsectarian
  8. temporal
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In a memorandum released last year, Allen's attorneys outlined an alternate theory of the girls' killings, saying evidence found at the scene mimicked rituals from a pagan Norse religion called Odinism.
    Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2024
Definition of pagan
Adjective
  • Separated a documentary film directed by Errol Morris Adam Kirsch In Search of Fullness In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The analysts said electricity demand is entering an era of secular growth driven by electrical infrastructure investments over the coming years.
    Paulina Likos, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of secular
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
  • Murphy probably shouldn’t have returned to such close geographic and temporal proximity to the tremendous The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story — and, indeed, the two shows have many points of overlap, all of which favor American Crime Story.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Additionally, temporal control techniques like pausing before responding or speaking at a moderate pace can demonstrate thoughtfulness and composure.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of temporal
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