Religious Sentiments
Nouns
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piety, religion, theism, faith
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religiousness, holiness etc. adj.
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saintship
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religionism
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sanctimony etc. (assumed piety) Impiety
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reverence etc. (respect) Respect
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humility, veneration, devotion
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prostration etc. (worship) Worship
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grace, unction, edification
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sanctity, sanctitude
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consecration. spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness. theopathy, beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life
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Body and Blood of Christ. believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist
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the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect
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Saint, Madonna, Our Lady. the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, the children of the light.
Verbs
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be pious etc. adj.
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have faith etc. n.
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believe, receive Christ
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revere etc. Respect
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be converted etc.
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convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate, enshrine.
Adjectives
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pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly-minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic
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saintly, saint-like
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seraphic, sacred, solemn. believing, faithful, Christian, Catholic. elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth.
Phrases
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pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with golden wings" [Milton].
Nouns
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impiety
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sin etc. Vice
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irreverence
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profaneness etc. adj.
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profanity, profanation
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blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege
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scoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) Falsehood
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pietism, cant, pious fraud
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lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence
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misdevotion, formalism, austerity
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sanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj.
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pharisaism, precisianism
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sabbatism, sabbatarianism
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sacerdotalism
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bigotry etc. (obstinacy) Obstinacy, (prejudice) Misjudgment
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blue laws. hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation. sinner etc. Bad Man
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scoffer, blasphemer
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sacrilegist
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sabbath breaker
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worldling
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hypocrite etc. (dissembler) Deceiver
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Tartufe, Mawworm. bigot
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saint [Iron.]
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Pharisee
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sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee
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ranter, fanatic, juramentado. the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate
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sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one
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children of darkness.
Verbs
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be impious etc. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff
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swear etc. (malediction) Malediction
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commit sacrilege. snuffle
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turn up the whites of the eyes
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idolize.
Adjectives
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impious
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irreligious etc. Irreligion
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desecrating etc. v.
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profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous. un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate
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hardened, perverted, reprobate. hypocritical etc. (false) Falsehood
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canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much. bigoted, fanatical
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priest-ridden.
Adverbs
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under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion.
Nouns
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irreligion, indevotion
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godlessness, ungodliness etc. adj.
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laxity, quietism. skepticism, doubt
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unbelief, disbelief
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incredulity, incredulousness etc. adj.
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want of faith, want of belief
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pyrrhonism
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bout etc. Unbelief. Doubt
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agnosticism. atheism
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deism
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hylotheism
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materialism
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positivism
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nihilism. infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism
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neology. [person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist
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giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene
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freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist
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materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist.
Verbs
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be irreligious etc. adj.
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disbelieve, lack faith
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doubt, question etc. Unbelief. Doubt. dechristianize.
Adjectives
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irreligious
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indevout
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undevout
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devoutless, godless, graceless
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ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed
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atheistic, without God. skeptical, freethinking
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unbelieving, unconverted
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incredulous, faithless, lacking faith
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deistical
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unchristian, antichristian. worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal
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worldly minded etc..