supersecular

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adjective

Above the world, or secular things.

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Meanings

adjectivesupersecular (comparative more supersecular, superlative most supersecular)

comparative more supersecular · superlative most supersecular

  1. Above the world, or secular things.

    Let us (ſaith he [Gregory of Nazianzus]) celebrate this feaſt, not in a panegyrical but divine, not in a vvorldly but ſuperſecular manner; not regarding ſo much our ſelves or ours, as the vvorſhip of Chriſt, &c.

    a. 1657, Joseph Hall, “A Letter for the Observation of the Feast of Christ’s Nativity”, in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree. The Remaining Works of that Incomparable Prelate Joseph Hall, D.D. […], London: […] J. Cadwel for J[ohn] Crooke, […], published 1660, →OCLC, page 302

Origin

From super- + secular.

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “supersecular,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supersecular.

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