Synonym: adoring, devout, faithful, pious, reverent. Antonym: secular. Similar words: eligible, delirious, delight, relief, delightful, relieve, reliable, derelict. Meaning: [rɪ'lɪdʒəs] n. a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience. adj. 1. concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church 2. having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity 3. extremely scrupulous and conscientious.
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211. Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics.
212. The authority had also accused him of encouraging homosexuality in his religious education lessons.
213. Its religious music is likely to fit that particular station's music policy in aiming at its target age-range.
214. Early descriptions Descriptions of self-starvation among early religious ascetics suggest that some variant of anorexia nervosa may be traced to medieval times.
215. Advanced courses afford the opportunity to study classical religious and anti-religious texts of influential philosophers from Plato to Sartre.
216. Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions[sentencedict .com], when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
217. On this basis, the hypothesis would be that religious beliefs tend to cluster around particular compounds of limitation.
218. The play abounds in biblical and religious allusions, typical of Romantic works, and also prevalent in the comedia lacrimosa.
219. She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
220. He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
221. Something was wrong with the family, the economy, social arrangements, even religious competition.
222. This issue arose in Illinois, where students wanted to distribute religious literature at school.
223. Within months, the religious right had begun to compare her plight with that of civil rights activists in the I 950s.
224. People who are not affiliated to any religion are equally religious in spirit. Dr T.P.Chia
225. Just because people are religious believers, it does not mean they must be ethical, moral and trustworthy. Dr T.P.Chia
226. The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man-made[sentencedict.com], and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
227. Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
228. I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner
229. His aristocratic family was so against his religious pursuits they locked him away for fifteen months.
230. A religious insight like Julian's shows that a passive, unquestioning acceptance of received dogma is not enough.
231. Belief provides spiritual warmth, comfort and easiness. If you are a religious believer, you tend to feel more peaceful, satisfying and happy. Dr T.P.Chia
232. To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.
233. Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
234. But hypersensitivity about colour or religious affiliation can be counterproductive.
235. These mystics are aware that the religious demands of the Church could induce a deep anxiety, which Luther certainly experienced.
236. The station will carry religious, as well as documentary, news and drama material and will be funded by advertising revenue.
237. Religious fanaticism or extremism is the worst religion that creates hatred, violence, immorality, injustice and even war. Dr T.P.Chia
238. If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! Percy Bysshe Shelley
239. The notion of apprenticeship as an almost religious vocation survives best, oddly, in martial arts movies like Bloodsport on Showtime.
240. There were other religious accessories around the place and, on the walls, idealized renderings of New Testament scenes.
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