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religious | cantingly |

As an adjective religious

is concerning religion.

As a noun religious

is a member of a religious order, ie a monk or nun.

As an adverb cantingly is

in a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.

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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    cantingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a canting manner; with jargon or religious affectation.
  • * 1840 , The New Monthly Magazine (page 429)
    • We have seen and heard the sneers and sarcasms with which poor Frank's unobtrusive attempts to moralize, not tediously, boringly, or cantingly , have been received by Sir George and his eldest son.