Converse of object

• become: With all this talk of Christianity, it is easy to imagine government becoming less secular.

Adjective modifier

• more: As he put it: You are going to find a more secular, modernized UUP.

• new: On 12 January 1858 these courts ceased, and jurisdiction for the granting of probate was passed to the new secular Court of Probate.

• contemporary: What that mission was is hard to say, but it conflicted with contemporary secular and religious authority and he was eventually crucified.

Modifies a noun

• humanism: N early all religions have their origins in Secular Humanism.

• clergy: The Scots College was to be ruled by Italian superiors drawn from the secular clergy.

• canon: The plays were written by secular canons at Glasney College in Penryn with the intention of teaching ordinary people tales from the Bible.

• priest: During their rule the college had become the main source of secular priests on the Scottish Mission.

• republic: Turkey is a secular republic with a fully democratic government.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: In fact they are purely secular merely depicting those who had a special connection with the new house.

• increasingly: The nineteenth century change was part of an increasingly secular approach to human nature.

• largely: In largely secular societies, it is not surprising that the concept of blessings has dwindled.

• essentially: We do not follow an essentially secular model of self fulfillment - this is what you will get.

• thoroughly: Society tends to emphasize success, materialism, consumerism, is becoming thoroughly secular.

Noun used with modifier

• modem: Modem secular folk, of course, pretend otherwise.

• century: To be sure it treads hard on twenty-first century secular certainties.

• state: Points and increased specifically strong state secular trend should the two known.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Society tends to emphasize success, materialism, consumerism, is becoming thoroughly secular.