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secular arms

secular arms is the plural of secular arm.

Meaning of secular arm

Noun

secular arm (plural (rare) secular arms)

  1. (historical) The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court.
    • The secular arm as a means by which lay power intervenes in ecclesiastical cases had two types: sought and unsought by the Church.

Questions about secular arms

What is secular arms the plural of?
Secular arms is the plural of secular arm.

Words near secular arms in the dictionary

  1. Secuieni
  2. secukinumab
  3. secula
  4. secular
  5. secular arm
  6. secular arms
  7. secular clergy
  8. secular equilibria
  9. secular equilibrium
  10. secular equilibriums
  11. secular progressivism

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