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Secularist   /sˈɛkjələrɪst/   Listen
Secularist

noun
1.
An advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education.





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"Secularist" Quotes from Famous Books



... phenomena, Wallace found that there was such a mass of testimony by men of the highest character and ability in every department of human learning that he thought it would be useful to bring this together in a connected sketch of the whole subject. This he did, and sent it to a secularist magazine, in which it appeared in 1866, under the title of "The Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural." He sent ...
— Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2) • James Marchant
... successful. Not only was it now wholly managed by artisans, but it had come to be a centre of active, nay, brutal, opposition to the Church and faith which had originally fostered it. In organic connection with it was a large debating hall, in which the most notorious secularist lecturers held forth every Sunday evening; and next door to it, under its shadow and patronage, was a little dingy shop filled to overflowing with the coarsest free-thinking publications, Colonel Ingersoll's books occupying the place ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Secularist" :   advocator, secularism, advocate, exponent, proponent


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