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.
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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.
“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,” said he, leaning with his back against the shutters.
The lady was very beautiful, but the fact of her foreign birth and of her alien religion always caused a separation of interests and of feelings between husband and wife, so that after a time his love may have cooled towards her and he may have come to regard their union as a mistake.
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