god-fearing

ADJECTIVE
  1. deeply religious
    a god-fearing and law-abiding people
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How To Use god-fearing In A Sentence

  • The Iranians are a god-fearing people and believe in an afterlife, and this is certainly true of the mullahs and ayatollahs who comprise their government.
  • It was a fighting club, and on Friday nights the few respectable, God-fearing members dandered to the town-house, as if merely curious to have another look at the building. Auld Licht Idyls
  • Could this be the shot-in-the-mouth that millions of not-so-God-fearing-Americans need to get the back on their feet ... stumbling and weaving to refill their snifters with some discounted muscatel from the local five and dime or bodega? Warren Holstein: Drinking Good for Depression? The Possible Repeal of Religious Repression
  • As a result of this decision, he was to be lastingly estranged from his God-fearing mother, who regarded everything to do with the stage as sinful.
  • It was a fighting club, and on Friday nights the few respectable, god-fearing members dandered to the town-house, as if merely curious to have another look at the building. Auld Licht Idylls
  • To test the ludicrousness of that line of thinking, imagine what it would be like if we were all God-fearing celibates.
  • God-fearing self, put on no airs, and intermeddled not in matters beyond her ken, she was universally respected and regretted. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • a God-fearing Woman, that is, who considereth the Poor and Needy, insteade of aiming to be frounced and purfled like her richest Neighbours. Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary
  • However, the first chapter is an introduction to her spiritual world, a kind of manifesto of the faith, belief, aspirations, motives and opinions of this God-fearing pious Jewish woman, dealing mainly with these and other topics from the field of musar (moral and ethical teachings). Glueckel of Hameln.
  • NEW YORK: Founder of a nation, trouncer of the English, God-fearing family man: all in all, The Hindu - Front Page
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