religion
/ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/ noun B1- Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief. · Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it. · Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy· Near-synonyms: credo, creed
- The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
- Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
- Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
Plural religions
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“Madame,” replied Villefort, with a mournful smile, “I have already had the honor to observe that my father has—at least, I hope so—abjured his past errors, and that he is, at the present moment, a firm and zealous friend to religion and order—a better royalist, possibly, than his son; for he has to atone for past dereliction, while I have no other impulse than warm, decided preference and conviction.” Having made this well-turned speech, Villefort looked carefully around to mark the effect of his oratory, much as he would have done had he been addressing the bench in open court.
To vote Conservative was part of Matthew’s religion.
Phillips is a Grit too because Prissy Andrews’s father is one, and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics.
Dantès paused a moment, then said, “This is it, word for word: ‘The king’s attorney is informed by a friend to the throne and religion, that one Edmond Dantès, mate on board the Pharaon, this day arrived from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has been intrusted by Murat with a packet for the usurper; again, by the usurper, with a letter for the Bonapartist Club in Paris.
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