| Thus, once independence had been achieved, the liberals tried to get rid of the church's privileges and to secularize education. |
| This will and power to secularize himself is perhaps Emerson's unique attribute. |
| The Carmelites had persecuted him in his youth, and in the end the prior had driven him to secularize himself. |
| The Pope who shall dare to secularize a foot-breadth of land which has been gifted to the Church is by that law accursed. |
| It was intended to check the tendency to secularize benefices. |
| Berger notes that modernity does not necessarily secularize us but it does pluralize us. |
