Word Meanings - DERELIGIONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make irreligious; to turn from religion. He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.
Related words: (words related to DERELIGIONIZE)
- 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.