Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive or affected religious zeal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Outward practice or profession of religion.
- noun Affected religious zeal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The practice of, or devotion to, religion.
- noun Affectation or pretense of religion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
excessive religious ardour orzeal - noun
extreme piety - noun
discrimination orprejudice on the basis of religion or religious beliefs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
- noun exaggerated religious zealotry
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the effect, upon the minds of young persons, of frequenting the society of those in whose conversation and manners religious principle or feeling does not appear, will almost inevitably be to render what they know of religion the source of uneasiness, and of fruitless conflicts between conscience and inclination: and if, at the same time, much of hollow religionism is witnessed by them, the probable result will be either immovable indifference, or confirmed infidelity.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832
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Sterling focuses on seven reasons we should all be panicking: the climate; intellectual property; currency speculation; the insurance market; the ageing population; the increasing irrelevance of nation states; the flight from reason/science, with refuge taken in superstition and religionism.
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And mostly it is the busy bodies who are misguided by minority people they fear, who may themselves actually practice religionism against Christianity, that make up these stupid rulings.
It Is Christmas in Ruralshire. Say It And Be Proud. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Neo-cons, with their religionism, imperialism, intolerance, insensitivity, glorification of Big Business, and hatred of civil liberties and our Constitution, give real conservatives a bad name.
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So why am I writing this if I'm so offended by Pharyngula's rabid anti-religionism?
Archive 2009-04-01 1 Dinosaur 2009
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In short, your anti-religionism is giving atheists a bad name.
Archive 2009-04-01 1 Dinosaur 2009
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We always speak our mind. appreciate differences in culture believe in sexual preferences believe in no racism no sexism no religionism and we'll fight for what we believe but usually we're pagans,
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It's not his atheism, but his expressions of anti-religionism that are deeply offensive.
Science and Religion (and Sex) 1 Dinosaur 2009
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I must admit, there is a subset of atheists who “convert” to religionism, but the strength of the tide is in the other direction.
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It's not his atheism, but his expressions of anti-religionism that are deeply offensive.
Archive 2009-04-01 1 Dinosaur 2009
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