secularization

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sec=u=lar=i=za=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

secularization, n. [Cf. F. sécularisation.].

 The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

secularization

Laity

N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.