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n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

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adj. of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows; "the secular clergy"

adj. not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"

worldly, secular, temporal

adj. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

amateur

n. someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime

novitiate, novice

n. someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

newcomer

n. a recent arrival; "he's a newcomer to Boston"

dabbler, dilettante, sciolist

n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

earthly

adj. of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home"

civil

adj. applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military; "civil authorities"

godless, irreverent

adj. not revering god

wicked

adj. morally bad in principle or practice

evil, vicious

adj. having the nature of vice

evil

adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

depraved, perverse, perverted, reprobate

adj. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

iniquitous, sinful, ungodly

adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"

nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile

adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

coarse, common

adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"

cosmopolitan, widely distributed

adj. growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"

avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile

adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

hedonic, hedonistic, epicurean

adj. devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures"

blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious

adj. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"

profanatory

adj. profaning or tending to desecrate

secularized

adj. made secular

clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth

n. a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

preacher, preacher man, sermonizer, sermoniser

n. someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel

professional, professional person

n. a person engaged in one of the learned professions

religious

adj. of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows; "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service"

sacred

adj. (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person; "a fund sacred to charity"; "a morning hour sacred to study"; "a private office sacred to the President"

ecclesiastical, ecclesiastic

adj. of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church); "ecclesiastic history"

religious, spiritual

adj. concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a member of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"

sacred

adj. (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person; "a fund sacred to charity"; "a morning hour sacred to study"; "a private office sacred to the President"

holy

adj. belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power

unworldly

adj. not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney

spiritual, unearthly

adj. concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love"

heavenly

adj. of or belonging to heaven or god

celestial, ethereal, supernal

adj. of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"

aesthetic, esthetic, artistic

adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"

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