The meaning of the 'secular' word
Hello.
I have the following sentence:
The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.
I'm reading 'The war of the worlds' by G. Wells.
Could you please explain this word to me, secular? It doesn't make sense if get it as a statement that's not related on any religion. One of the option of translation is 'eternal', 'everlasting'. But there is no any similar definition at the english dictionary.
Thank you in advance.
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I found this definition via a google search. Clive from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Going on from age to age; accomplished or taking place in the course of ages; continued through an indefinite but long period of time; not recurrent or periodical, so far as known: as, secular change of the mean annual temperature; the secular cooling or refrigeration of the globe; the secular inequality in the motion of a planet. com/words/secular
- I found this definition via a google search.
- Clive from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Going on from age to age; accomplished or taking place in the course of ages; continued through an indefinite but long period of time; not recurrent or periodical, so far as known: as, secular change of the mean annual temperature; the secular cooling or refrigeration of the globe; the secular inequality in the motion of a planet.
- com/words/secular
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Clive
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Going on from age to age; accomplished or taking place in the course of ages; continued through an indefinite but long period of time; not recurrent or periodical, so far as known: as, secular change of the mean annual temperature; the secular cooling or refriger
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