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Religious

adjective

Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church. Synonym: spiritual. "A member of a religious order" , "Lords temporal and spiritual" , "Spiritual leaders" , "Spiritual songs"

Having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity. "Religious attitude" Antonym: irreligious.

Of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows. Antonym: secular.

Extremely scrupulous and conscientious.

noun

A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience.

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... religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of ...

— Book of Wise Sayings - Selected Largely from Eastern Sources • W. A. Clouston

... his vast estates. She was afterwards married to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Although Strongbow was a "destroyer" of the native clergy, he appears to have been impregnated with the mediaeval devotion for establishing religious houses. He founded a priory at Kilmainham for the Knights of the Temple, with an alms-house and hospital He was also a liberal benefactor to the Church of the Holy Trinity, where ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

... sites are often vary shallow, and when they occur in the open country are liable to be disturbed by ploughing, when the smaller statuettes and terra-cotta figures may be turned up in considerable numbers. As most of our knowledge of the sculpture, as well as of the religious observances, of ancient Cyprus is derived from such sites, all such indications should be reported at once to the Keeper of Antiquities, and arrangements made for the site to be examined with a view to excavation before it is cultivated further. The sculpture on these sites begins usually in ...

— How to Observe in Archaeology • Various

... what you think. It's Easter time or some such thing at home. They all return to the home planet and stay there for about thirty days in the spring. Religious festival." ...

— Unspecialist • Murray F. Yaco

... over the first two odes, which have no claim to a place among 'sacred texts.' And only in one stanza of the third is there the expression of a religious sentiment. I give ...

— The Shih King • James Legge

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