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Acknowledgment
noun · 78% connection
A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Affirmation
noun · 78% connection
A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Apostasy
noun · 78% connection
An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Apostatize
verb · 78% connection
To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to whi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Avowal
noun · 78% connection
An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Backslide
verb · 78% connection
To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Believer
noun · 78% connection
One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who rec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Bigot
noun · 78% connection
A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Canon
noun · 78% connection
The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, giv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Covenant
noun · 78% connection
The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Creed
verb · 78% connection
Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Declaration
noun · 78% connection
The act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclama…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Declare
verb · 78% connection
To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares agai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Faith
noun · 78% connection
The belief in the facts and truth of the Scriptures, with a practical love of them; especially, that confiding and affectionate belief…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Heterodoxy
noun · 78% connection
An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or stan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Infidel
adjective · 78% connection
Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Infidelity
noun · 78% connection
Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
Koran
noun · 78% connection
The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: professed, makes, open, declaration, sentiments.
