Religion
[rɪ'lɪdʒ(ə)n] or [rɪ'lɪdʒən]
Definition
(noun.) a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; 'he lost his faith but not his morality'.
(noun.) an institution to express belief in a divine power; 'he was raised in the Baptist religion'; 'a member of his own faith contradicted him'.
Edited by Cheryl--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.
(n.) Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.
(n.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.
(n.) Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Science of duty (to God and our fellows), science of obligation (as creatures of God), that which binds us to the practice of righteousness.[2]. Sentiment of faith, reverence, and love towards God; godliness, devoutness, devotion, holiness, sanctity, piety, virtue, goodness.[3]. System of faith.
Checker: Rowena
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Faith, creed, theology, belief, profession, piety, sanctity, godliness,holiness
ANT:Unbelief, irreligion, godlessness, atheism, impiety, sacrilege, scoffing,blasphemy, scepticism, profanity, hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness, Pharisaism,formalism, reprobation
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Definition
n. the recognition of supernatural powers and of the duty lying upon man to yield obedience to these: the performance of our duties of love and obedience towards God: piety: any system of faith and worship: sense of obligation or duty.—ns. Relig′ioner Relig′ionary.—v.t. Relig′ionise to imbue with religion.—v.i. to make profession of religion.—ns. Relig′ionism Religios′ity religiousness religious sentimentality; Relig′ionist one attached to a religion: a bigot.—adj. Relig′ionless having no religion.—adv. Religiō′so (mus.) in a devotional manner.—Established religion that form which is officially recognised by the state; Natural religion that religion which is derived from nature and not revelation; Revealed religion that which is derived from positive revelation by divinely inspired Scripture or otherwise.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream of discussing religion and feel religiously inclined, you will find much to mar the calmness of your life, and business will turn a disagreeable front to you. If a young woman imagines that she is over religious, she will disgust her lover with her efforts to act ingenuous innocence and goodness. If she is irreligious and not a transgressor, it foretells that she will have that independent frankness and kind consideration for others, which wins for women profound respect, and love from the opposite sex as well as her own; but if she is a transgressor in the eyes of religion, she will find that there are moral laws, which, if disregarded, will place her outside the pale of honest recognition. She should look well after her conduct. If she weeps over religion, she will be disappointed in the desires of her heart. If she is defiant, but innocent of offence, she will shoulder burdens bravely, and stand firm against deceitful admonitions. If you are self-reproached in the midst of a religious excitement, you will find that you will be almost induced to give up your own personality to please some one whom you hold in reverent esteem. To see religion declining in power, denotes that your life will be more in harmony with creation than formerly. Your prejudices will not be so aggressive. To dream that a minister in a social way tells you that he has given up his work, foretells that you will be the recipient of unexpected tidings of a favorable nature, but if in a professional and warning way, it foretells that you will be overtaken in your deceitful intriguing, or other disappointments will follow. (These dreams are sometimes fulfilled literally in actual life. When this is so, they may have no symbolical meaning. Religion is thrown around men to protect them from vice, so when they propose secretly in their minds to ignore its teachings, they are likely to see a minister or some place of church worship in a dream as a warning against their contemplated action. If they live pure and correct lives as indicated by the church, they will see little of the solemnity of the church or preachers.)
Checker: Neil
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A daughter of Hope and Fear explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Typist: Virginia
Unserious Contents or Definition
A cloak used by some persons in this world who will be warm enough without one in the next.
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Examples
- I join to it the conception of a particular government, and religion, and manners. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Is it my life they seek, to atone for my religion? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The true gold of religion was in many cases thrown away with the worn-out purse that had contained it for so long, and it was not recovered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had never a gleam of religion or affection or the sense of duty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They would have been considered as guests of the public, and the religion of the country would have operated in their favour. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Art cannot claim to be on a level with philosophy or religion, and may often corrupt them. Plato. The Republic.
- My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I don't know, either, about religion's being up in the market, just now. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Self-righteousness is not religion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was the orthodox theology that the new scientific advances had compromised, but the angry theologians declared that it was religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their religion is a worship of God in Trinity, that is of Wisdom, Love and Power, but without any distinction of persons. Plato. The Republic.
- Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She was a cousin,--an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Polish language was banned, and the Greek Orthodox church was substituted for the Roman Catholic as the State religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is the god who sits in the centre, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- There is a great deal of literal truth in that remark, for it has been the peculiar work of Bryan to express in politics some of that emotion which has made America the home of new religions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was a recognized principle of the Society freely to admit men of different religions, countries, professions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- India, a galaxy of contrasted races, religions, and cultures, Dravidian, Mongolian, and Aryan, became a nation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In certain other respects this primitive Buddhism differed from any of the religions we have hitherto considered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For there had been a sort of truce between these two great religions after the cessation of the Moslem advance and the decline of the Omayyads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The religion of Gautama is flatly opposite to the immortality religions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Jesus was to him the Easter lamb, that traditional human victim without spot or blemish who haunts all the religions of the dark white peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As Graham Wallas is endeavoring to make human nature the center of politics, so James made it the center of religions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Arts, religions, laws, as well as vice and crime and degradation, have their source in this central economic condition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Evidently the fundamental good of all these religions seemed to Tai-tsung to be much the same fundamental good. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The two religions spread side by side and underwent similar changes, so that nowadays their outward practice is very similar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This essential identity is the most important historical aspect of these great world religions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Brahminism held its own against Buddhism, and the two religions prospered side by side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This he thought might form a common platform for every variety of faith in India, that kaleidoscope of religions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Nancy