religious
Noun
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is a type of: religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deitysubtypes:
- friar, mendicant - a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
- monastic, monk - a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
- benedictine - a monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict
- jesuit - a member of the Jesuit order
- nun - a woman religious
- eremite - a Christian recluse
- cenobite, coenobite - a member of a religious order living in common
- superior - the head of a religious community
- votary - one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service
specific instances: merton, thomas merton - United States religious and writer (1915-1968)
Adjective
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similar to: sacred - concerned with religion or religious purposessame as: spiritual
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also: pious - having or showing or expressing reverence for a deitysimilar to:
- churchgoing - actively practicing a religion
- churchly - resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church
- devout, god-fearing - deeply religious
- interfaith - involving persons of different religious faiths
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similar to: scrupulous - having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled
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