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Religious

Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.

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Churchgoing 84% connected

Habitually attending church.

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Churchgoing 84% connected

Habitually attending church.

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Churchly 84% connected

Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

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Churchly 84% connected

Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

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Devout 84% connected

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.

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Devout 84% connected

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.

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God-fearing 84% connected

Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious.

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God-fearing 84% connected

Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious.

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Sacred 84% connected

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a…

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Sacred 84% connected

Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a…

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Scrupulous 84% connected

Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.

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Scrupulous 84% connected

Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.

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Benedictine 76% connected

Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.

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Cenobite 76% connected

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

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Coenobite 76% connected

See Cenobite.

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Eremite 76% connected

A hermit.

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Friar 76% connected

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Aug…

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Jesuit 76% connected

One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.

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Mendicant 76% connected

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.

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Monastic 76% connected

A monk.

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Monk 76% connected

A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a…

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Nun 76% connected

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

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Superior 76% connected

More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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Votary 76% connected

Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised.

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Faith 74% connected

Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on…

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Faith 74% connected

Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on…

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Pious 66% connected

Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.

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Pious 66% connected

Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.

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Spiritual 92% connected

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.

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Irreligious 94% connected

Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious.

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Irreligious 94% connected

Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious.

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Secular 94% connected

Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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Secular 94% connected

Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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