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Meanings of
god-fearing
in English
Believing in and showing reverence for God or a deity.
religious
believing
pious
devout
Usage of
god-fearing
in English
1
We'll make a
god
-
fearing
maiden of modest demeanour out of you yet.
2
Are they wild and inhospitable, or friendly to the stranger and
god-fearing
?
3
I receive blows of sticks at command of the
god-fearing
priests.
4
Surely Zeus hated thee above all men, though thou hadst a
god-fearing
spirit!
5
And among those who escaped in this fashion was a
god-fearing
widow and her children.
6
Say, are they froward, and wild, and unjust, or hospitable and of a
god-fearing
mind?
7
I am certain no one was ever more
god
-
fearing
than yourself, and yet Jove hates you.
8
Who were friendly to strangers,
god
-
fearing
men?
9
In this film, being a
god
-
fearing
person is an exercise in futility because this is a godless land.
10
Football was still a
god
-
fearing
game in Clough's day, the bully boys of Leeds its first mercenary crusading army.
11
The
god-fearing
Canadian yeomanry, as they sang these strains, nourished at once their religious feelings and their patriotic enthusiasm.
12
Slim, a
god
-
fearing
moderate, is inclined to put his trust in the justice system, but Queen knows its limitations all too well.
13
But you, good Socrates, could you, godless as you are, deal better with the gods than I who was a
god-fearing
tanner?
14
But all was vain; right across the door lay that
god
-
fearing
householder, Paaaeua, feigning sleep; and my friends had to forego their junketing.
15
Growing up in conservative,
God
-
fearing
South Carolina wasn't easy for Parson James.
16
Of the after-history of these simple
God-fearing
folk we know very little.
Other examples for "god-fearing"
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god-fearing
god-fear
Verb
Present
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
god-fearing man
god-fearing people
god-fearing persons
god-fearing ancestors
god-fearing citizens
More collocations
God-fearing
through the time
God-fearing
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United Kingdom
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