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Religious vs Sainted - What's the difference?

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Religious is a related term of sainted.


As adjectives the difference between religious and sainted

is that religious is concerning religion while sainted is of or pertaining to a saint; saint-like, reverenced.

As a noun religious

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

As a verb sainted is

(saint).

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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    sainted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (saint)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a saint; saint-like, reverenced.
    • Pope John Paul II, of sainted memory, is a candidate for beatification.
  • (Used to mark a beloved person mentioned in conversation as being deceased).
    • My sainted mother never had an evening dress.

    Synonyms

    * (pertaining to a saint) blessed, holy * (of a deceased person) of blessed memory, late, late lamented

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