1. a person who promotes or brings about secularization, especially the removal of religious influence from public institutions or education

Examples

• The education minister was known as a secularizer who removed religious instruction from public schools.
• Critics called him a radical secularizer for his policies separating church and state.
• The secularizer argued that government should remain neutral on religious matters.
• As a secularizer, she advocated for science-based curricula in public education.
• The secularizer’s reforms faced opposition from religious groups.
• Many viewed the philosopher as an influential secularizer of modern thought.