Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
3. RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS
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#987. Piety.—N. piety, religion, theism, faith; religiousness,
holiness &c. adj.; saintship[obs3]; religionism[obs3]; sanctimony &c.
(assumed piety) 988; reverence &c. (respect) 928; humility, veneration,
devotion; prostration &c. (worship) 990; grace, unction, edification;
sanctity, sanctitude[obs3]; consecration. spiritual existence, odor of
sanctity, beauty of holiness. theopathy[obs3], beatification, adoption,
regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation,
inspiration, bread of life; Body and Blood of Christ. believer,
convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist[obs3]; the good, the
righteous, the just, the believing, the elect; Saint, Madonna, Notre
Dame[Fr], Our Lady. the children of God, the children of the Kingdom,
the children of the light. V. be pious &c. adj.; have faith &c. n.;
believe, receive Christ; revere &c. 928; be converted &c. convert,
edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate,
enshrine. Adj. pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly,
heavenly- minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic; saintly,
saint-like; seraphic, sacred, solemn. believing, faithful, Christian,
Catholic. elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated,
inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth. Phr. ne
vile fano[It]; "pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with
golden wings" [Milton].
#988. Impiety.—N. impiety; sin &c. 945; irreverence; profaneness &c.
adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege;
scoffing &c.v. [feigned piety] hypocrisy &c. (falsehood) 544; pietism,
cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence;
misdevotion[obs3], formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness
&c. adj; pharisaism, precisianism[obs3]; sabbatism[obs3],
sabbatarianism[obs3]; odium theologicum[Lat], sacerdotalism[obs3];
bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481; blue laws. hardening,
backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation. sinner &c. 949;
scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist[obs3]; sabbath breaker; worldling;
hypocrite &c. (dissembler) 548; Tartufe[obs3], Mawworm[obs3]. bigot;
saint [ironically]; Pharisee; sabbatarian[obs3], formalist, methodist,
puritan, pietist[obs3], precisian[obs3], religionist, devotee; ranter,
fanatic, juramentado[obs3]. the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the
reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of
darkness. V. be impious &c. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme,
revile, scoff; swear &c. (malediction) 908; commit sacrilege. snuffle;
turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize. Adj. impious; irreligious &c.
989; desecrating &c.v.; profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.
un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted,
reprobate. hypocritical &c. (false) 544; canting, pietistical[obs3],
sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous[obs3], righteous
over much. bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden. Adv. under the mask of
religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion,
under the form of religion, under the guise of religion. Phr. giovane
santo diavolo vecchio[It].
#989. Irreligion.—N. irreligion[obs3], indevotion[obs3];
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godlessness, ungodliness &c. adj.; laxity, quietism.
skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity,
incredulousness
&c. adj[obs3].; want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout &c.
485;
agnosticism.
atheism; deism; hylotheism[obs3]; materialism; positivism;
nihilism.
infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity[obs3], rationalism;
neology.
[person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist,
infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour[obs3], heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene;
espri
fort[Fr], freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist,
positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist[obs3], theophobist[obs3].
V. be irreligious &c. adj.; disbelieve, lack faith; doubt,
question
&c. 485.
dechristianize[obs3].
Adj. irreligious; indevout[obs3]; undevout[obs3];
devoutless[obs3],
godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified[obs3], unhallowed;
atheistic, without God.
skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; incredulous,
faithless, lacking faith; deistical; unchristian, antichristian[obs3].
worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly &c. minded.
Adv. irreligiously &c. adj.
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