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UK
/ɹɪlˈɪdʒəs/
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[ US /ɹiˈɫɪdʒəs, ɹɪˈɫɪdʒəs/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈɫɪdʒəs, ɹɪˈɫɪdʒəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extremely scrupulous and conscientious
religious in observing the rules of health -
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
lords temporal and spiritual
spiritual songs
a member of a religious order
spiritual leaders
religious texts -
of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
the religious or regular clergy conducts the service -
having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
religious attitude
a religious man
NOUN
- a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
How To Use religious In A Sentence
- For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously. The Advancement of Learning
- The tax assessor determined that the property was subject to taxation based on its infrequent use for religious purposes. Christianity Today
- The WSJ recently had an article about an antitheist ‘preacher’ as it were, who was giving anti-religious sermons to large crowds in France. Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
- Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
- It is unlikely that the Irish needed explanation of the concept of three persons in one, as triads were central to pre-Christian Celtic religious tradition.
- Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
- ( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss
- They are also less likely to get support from strong religious or spiritual beliefs.
- It was also a noteworthy echo of a speech Sarkozy himself made last December, when he called for a "positive laicity" and suggested that the state could ultimately grant subsidies to religious groups. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.