as in to dissuade
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The pre-revolutionary Sisters of Mercy were strongly associated with religious virtue but became increasingly secularized and professionalized during World War I. After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, these nurses were reinvented as Soviet medical workers.
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Susan Grant, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Early campaigns for financial reorganization gave way to ambitious attempts to secularize the inhabitants of monastic houses on a scale unseen in any other national church—with dramatic social as well as economic consequences.
—Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Benedictines sympathize with the first two groups but tend to be more pessimistic about the prospects for national political or top-down solutions while the culture continues to secularize.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 13 July 2021
In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
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Susan Grant, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
Early campaigns for financial reorganization gave way to ambitious attempts to secularize the inhabitants of monastic houses on a scale unseen in any other national church—with dramatic social as well as economic consequences.
—Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
Benedictines sympathize with the first two groups but tend to be more pessimistic about the prospects for national political or top-down solutions while the culture continues to secularize.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 13 July 2021
In the 1920s, the Mexican government’s attempt to secularize the country sparks a rebellion known as the Cristero War.
—Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secularize
dissuade
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The vast majority — 103 — involved defendants in domestic violence cases trying to dissuade the victim from cooperating with authorities or showing up to court, according to a Journal Sentinel review of court records.—
Ashley Luthern,
jsonline.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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That the artist was in the collections of Jewish-American families, such as that of Gertrude Stein, did not dissuade the Luftwaffe chief from adding a fifth Matisse to his collection, Woman in Blue in Front of a Fireplace.—
Christopher C. Gorham
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Secularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secularize. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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