nonecclesiastical

Definition of nonecclesiasticalnext

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Adjective
  • Seven Mountains has brought the language of spiritual warfare and demon-fighting into the mainstream of evangelicalism, through a network of pastors who view themselves as prophets and apostles engaged in a battle against evil secular forces.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Since the Six-Day War in 1967, which resulted in the emergence of the messianic Gush Emunim movement and the planting of settlements in the West Bank, changes within Israeli society have alienated many American Jews, as well as secular, left-wing Israelis.
    Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • Though editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (a Yorgos Lanthimos regular) cuts the film with brisk concision, there’s also a welcome temporal elasticity here — the sense that life can change in the blink of an eye, but also stall for undefined passages.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • The researchers fed this millennium-long data into a computer model to determine how much stress has built up along the faults in that temporal window.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • In lay terms, that means the court's ruling is not based on whether the judge approves or disapproves of what Comb's is accused of.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • However, lay reading is not the way that people have, historically speaking, interfaced with the classics.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
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“Nonecclesiastical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonecclesiastical. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

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