Here's a quote from Robert Hurley's translation of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality arguing for the historical importance of the anonymous author of My Secret Life:
…he was the most direct and in a way the most naïve representative of a plurisecular injunction to talk about sex.
I've been searching for this word on Google, but it's giving me only translations, not an explanation, and I don't know the languages it provides me translations for.
Does anybody know what this word means?
Best Answer
In short, it means centuries-old or age-old.
It's formed from the prefix pluri and the word secular.
Both from Merriam-Webster.
pluri-:
secular:
Secular has other senses, mostly related to things that are of the material world, or not religious, but in the sense used for this combined word it's this one.
From a translation by Linguee between Spanish and English (emphasis mine):