They were secularized, and ultimately degraded for the most part into burlesque. |
But just a hair above a majority of his votes came from a secularized portion of society. |
The number of Roman parishes, too, was reduced, and all the convents were secularized. |
The Roman alphabet replaced Arabic writing, the state became exclusively secular, monogamous marriages were introduced, and education was secularized. |
Because of its concern with imminent change, millenarianism appealed to radical reformers and could be secularized into utopianism. |
They have been further homogenized, and secularized, in the postwar years of relative affluence by American-style middle-class consumerism. |