Definition of "secularized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of secularize. (verb)

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• "The reality is that Britain secularized when Britons finally realized that instead of reading the News of the Screws to find out what other people did in bed on Sundays they could skip church and do it themselves."
• "The fact is, says Roy, that most societies in which Muslims live are already, in effect, largely secularized, which is to say modern enough to produce dangerous conditions of anomie and free-floating anger."
• "However "secularized" the environment surrounding their endeavor may be, the Islamists 'effort to construct a nonsecular system of rule (godly not worldly, timeless laws not temporal ones) continues to have tremendous romantic appeal, and can still mobilize much force."