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Meanings of god-fearing in English
Synonyms
Examples for "religious"
Examples for "religious"
1
Information about, and government policies and efforts regarding, religious and ethnic minorities.
2
This is the political reality that threatens the political and religious authorities.
3
However, the spouses-to-be come from completely different religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
4
Islamic militants often accuse Western aid groups of covert religious missionary work.
5
The vow in the religious is individual and personal; the riches collective.
1
People are not really believing that the rally will continue, he said.
2
Perhaps she asked to come with us believing we might help her.
3
First, there is good reason for believing causation goes the other way.
4
I don't think he'll have a bit of a problem believing me.
5
Meaning there were good reasons for believing she was on his side.
1
Yes, we went to mass, although the motive was far from pious.
2
The first emotion was surprise; the second, awe; the third, pious fervour.
3
Why did you turn aside from your pious practices and good works?
4
Was the Family's vision simply a pious veneer on business as usual?
5
In the age of discipline, watercooler gossip has taken a pious turn.
1
It notes Labor lost support among Christians, particularly devout, first-generation migrant Christians.
2
But that work brought the devout Christian into frequent conflict with authorities.
3
But the nuns spend the evening in prayer, so do the devout.
4
He believes that a return to devout worship will alleviate the problems.
5
It's possible it was practiced only by a devout sprinkling of farmers.
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.
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