Political vs Religious - What's the difference?
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Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
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Concerning a polity or its administrative components.
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(label) Motivated, especially inappropriately, by political (electoral or other party political) calculation.
Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power or authority.
(label) Interested in politics.
A political agent or officer.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 265:
a publication centred around politics
Concerning religion.
Committed to the practice of religion.
Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 354:
As adjectives the difference between political and religious
is that political is concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing while religious is concerning religion.As nouns the difference between political and religious
is that political is a political agent or officer while religious is a member of a religious order, ie a monk or nun.political
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Alternative forms
* politicall (obsolete)Adjective
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Synonyms
* politicAntonyms
* nonpolitical, non-politicalDerived terms
* politicality * politically * political agent * political animal * political arithmetic * political asylum * political economy * political football * politicalness * political party * political prisoner * party political * politically correct * sociopoliticalNoun
(en noun)- One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political , who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
- I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
- I'm a religious fan of college basketball.
Antonyms
* (concerning religion) * (committed to religion) * (highly dedicated)Hyponyms
* Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Wiccan, Eckist, Druid, Jain, , Sikh, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Unitarian Universalist, New Ager, reconstructionist, LaVeyan Satanist, Scientologist, Rastafarian, Taoist, pagan, spiritist, humanist, Thelemite, ConfucianistNoun
(religious)- Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious , Scholastica.