(a.) 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.
(a.) Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
(a.) Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
(a.) Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
(5) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(6) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(7) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(8) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(9) Males scored higher than females on theoretical and lower on religious scales.
(10) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
(11) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(12) However, social support significantly correlated with depression and there was some indication that the type of institutional setting and frequency of religious participation also interacts with the level of depression.
(13) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(14) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(15) There are long-running tensions between the state and the region's large Uighur Muslim population, with many angered by cultural and religious restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities and some aspiring to independence for what they call East Turkestan.
(16) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
(17) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(18) But first he flew to Saudi Arabia to make the religiously encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca; he found himself stranded in Bahrain after he was unable to enter Kenya.
(19) In the afternoon he reads historical or religious books and novels.
(20) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
Schism
Definition:
(n.) Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) There have been succession of schisms which have left Reclaim Australia without anyone clearly in charge, and there were relatively small numbers at the most recent rallies which, at least in larger cities, were outnumbered by counter-protesters.
(2) Judith Martin Winchester, Hampshire • I have never voted Conservative, and would never consider voting Ukip, but I think Douglas Carswell deserves more credit than your rather begrudging editorial gives him ( Schism-on sea , 29 August).
(3) On the other hand, there is no doubt that the schism in the Anglican Communion would have happened much more slowly and perhaps not at all without the help of the internet.
(4) It is likely that the report will widen the schism between budget carriers and regional airports on the one hand, and long-haul carriers such as British Airways and international hubs such as Heathrow on the other.
(5) Finland is certain to reject another bailout for Greece to avoid a schism that could topple its two-month-old government.
(6) This could lead to a formal rather than de facto schism, with conservative churches around the world realigning under the authority of Gafcon.
(7) The goal of this contribution is to give an overall survey of the analytic schisms in the New York area from 1934 on.
(8) TalkSport parent UTV Media's split from the RadioCentre could create a schism in the commercial radio industry and prompt other operators to quit the radio trade body, a senior industry figure has warned.
(9) Amid claims in the markets that politicians in Athens were playing a dangerous game of bluff, a potential schism in the monetary union saw borrowing costs for Spain and Italy rise over fears that contagion could spread from Greece through southern Europe.
(10) Behavioral pediatric dentistry is in flux, much like the world that it serves; there appear to be schisms within the profession regarding one aspect of this: the presence of parents in the dental operatory.
(11) The Benedictines were there long before the 16th-century Reformation, before even the schism of 1054 that divided the eastern and western church.
(12) This discordance in the origins of curative medicine and public health does not explain why a schism between them still persists.
(13) Nearly all these "snapshots of women's lives", as she calls them, show the protagonists attempting to put a brave face on the disappointments of everyday life, or the schism between their public and private selves.
(14) And one of the experts who signed today's letter has just defended the divisions within the world of economics (which the Today Programme dubbed a schism).
(15) The longer the main parties remained in conflict, the more the schism was felt an affront to the Palestinian sense of self and dignity.
(16) It worries me that many commentators present or interpret the contested issue of the renewal of the Trident programme simply as a schism between “multi” and “uni” lateralists within the Labour party (“ Blue on blue, red on red.
(17) The Anglican schism over sexuality marks the end of a global church | Andrew Brown Read more C of E officials have also averted a threatened boycott of next week’s meeting by the more liberal wing of the Anglican communion, following a controversial invitation from Welby to the leader of the conservative breakaway Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to participate in the meeting.
(18) It is being watched closely in Nigeria , Africa's most populous country, which has its own, sometimes violent schism between a predominantly Muslim north and largely Christian, oil-rich south.
(19) C of E fears talks on gay rights could end global Anglican communion Read more Three months after Robinson’s election, Anglican leaders met at Lambeth Palace in London in an attempt to prevent a schism.
(20) Saudi-Iranian rivalries have deep roots, of course, and the roots of the Sunni-Shia schism run even deeper.