secular

/SEK-yuh-ler/adjective

not connected with religious or spiritual matters

The republic keeps its courts strictly secular.
Synonyms
worldly, nonreligious, temporal
Antonyms
religious, sacred
Memory hook
saeculum (the age): of this world's time.

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