secularist
pronunciation
How to pronounce secularist in British English:
UK ['sekjələrɪst]
How to pronounce secularist in American English:
US ['sekjələrɪst]
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- Noun:
- an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education
Word Origin
- secularist (n.)
- 1846, "one who theoretically rejects and ignores all forms of religion based on revelation;" see secularism + -ist. From 1851 as "one who maintains that public education and civil policy should be conducted without the introduction of a religious element." Related: Secularistic.
Example
- 1. Mr allawi is a moderate but , unlike mr chalabi , he is no secularist .
- 2. French president uses first state of nation speech to take hard line in defence of republican secularist principle
- 3. First came unsigned leaflets claiming that the candidate for the egyptian bloc , a secularist group , was a communist atheist .
- 4. The parliamentary alliance between the muslim brotherhood and the ultra-conservative salafists , whose commitment to minority rights is scant , confirms secularist anxiety that the next political order could prove to be a shallow , majoritarian democracy .