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/rɪlˈɪdʒəs/ /rilˈɪdʒəs/ Listen

adjective

Religious adj.

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. "Our law forbids at their religious rites My presence."

Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc. "Men whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God."

Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict. "Thus, Indianlike, Religious in my error, I adore The sun, that looks upon his worshiper."

Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows. "One of them is religious."

Synonyms: Pious; godly; holy; devout; devotional; conscientious; strict; rogod; exact.

noun

Religious n. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.

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Etymology of 'Religious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Religious" Quotes from Famous Books

... vaulted roof of the grand cathedral, and felt the solemnity of religious awe—I have passed through the gilded saloons of a regal palace, that inspired me with pity and contempt—pity for the slaves who had sweated for that gilding, and contempt for the sycophants who surrounded me—I have inspected the sombre cells of a prison with feelings ...

— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid

... remotest manner. How could she then pledge herself to restore these rights? The whole dispute had arisen from an incorrect, forced interpretation of the Landfriede by the Five Cantons. The governments did not stand opposed to each other in religious matters, and the freedom of the Gospel or its limitation was not to be decided by a majority of the ruling powers in the Territories. The Landfriede itself guaranteed the former; therefore Zurich maintained, that she stood here also on perfectly legal ground; ...

— The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli • Johann Hottinger

... of life, three years, at the end of which time the King was wroth with Adi and slew him. Hind mourned for him with an exceeding grief and built her a convent without the city, whither she retired and devoted herself to religious exercises, weeping and bemoaning her husband, till she died. And her convent is extant to ...

— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous

... that there is no religious or political bigotry: the movement is right outside both Carsonism and Redmondism, as indeed their new flag, with its significant colours—green, white, and orange—symbolizes; and he repeats the hope of the United Irishmen at the end of the eighteenth century, "that our ...

— Six days of the Irish Republic - A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics • Louis Redmond-Howard

... by those who happen to be speaking of this period. There are those who know it almost only through the medium of the Acts of the Apostles, and who entertain the most erroneous notions concerning Gallio or Festus, concerning Roman justice, Roman taxation, or Roman moral and religious attitudes. There are those, again, who know it almost only through the manuals of history; that is to say, they know the dates and facts of the reigns of the emperors, but have never realised, not to say visualised, the contemporary Roman as a human being. There exist denunciations of ...

— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker

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