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Religious vs Blessing - What's the difference?

religious | blessing |

As nouns the difference between religious and blessing

is that religious is a member of a religious order, ie a monk or nun while blessing is some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.

As an adjective religious

is concerning religion.

religious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Concerning religion.
    • It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
  • Committed to the practice of religion.
    • I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
  • Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
    • 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, Confucianist

    Related terms

    * irreligious * religion * religious education * religious leader * religious order * religious studies * religiously * religiousness * sacrilegious

    Noun

    (religious)
  • A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 354:
    • 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.

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    blessing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
  • A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
  • Good fortune.
  • (paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.
  • The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
  • A thing one is glad of.
  • A prayer before a meal; grace.
  • A group of unicorns.
  • * 2008 , Betsy Schiffman, " Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report", Wired , 11 September 2008:
    • And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.
  • * 2009 , Andrew Orlowski, " Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register , 13 September 2011:
    • Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
  • * 2011 , Suzette Mayr, Monoceros , Coach House Books (2011), ISBN 9781552452417, page 94:
    • She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.

    Antonyms

    * curse

    Derived terms

    * blessing in disguise * count one's blessings * mixed blessing

    Anagrams

    * English collective nouns