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Word Meanings - DERELIGIONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make irreligious; to turn from religion. He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.

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  • BEYOND
    1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
  • RELIGION
    A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
  • IRRELIGIOUS
    1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
  • RELIGIONISM
    1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
  • WOULDINGNESS
    Willingness; desire.
  • IRRELIGIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
  • WOULD-BE
    ' (as, a would-be poet.
  • RELIGIONIZE
    To bring under the influence of religion. Mallock.
  • WOULD
    Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
  • RELIGIONLESS
    Destitute of religion.
  • WOULDING
    Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. Hammond.
  • RELIGIONARY; RELIGIONER
    A religionist.
  • DERELIGIONIZE
    To make irreligious; to turn from religion. He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.
  • RELIGIONIST
    One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot. The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged
  • RELIGIONARY
    Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions.
  • IRRELIGIOUSLY
    In an irreligious manner.
  • CORRELIGIONIST
    A co-religion
  • SUBRELIGION
    A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration. Loyalty is in the English a subreligion. Emerson.
  • CO-RELIGIONIST
    One of the same religion with another.
  • IRRELIGION
    The state of being irreligious; want of religion; impiety.
  • IRRELIGIONIST
    One who is irreligious.
  • BOTHERSOME
    Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

 

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