Definitionn. exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
Last update: September 26, 2015
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The religiosity of the Quakers, with their doctrines of the " inner light " and the influence of, the Spirit, has decided affinities with mysticism; and the autobiography of George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of the sect, proceeds throughout on the assumption of supernatural guidance. [Please select]
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That speech of his yesterday--now why don't you take it and wring religiosity and hypocrisy and Tartuffism out of it. [Please select]
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Platt also betrayed that he dated from the last generation by his religiosity. [Please select]
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In times of peace they were centres of a true, emotional religiosity. [Please select]
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There is some melodrama, some religiosity, and there are some absurd recognition scenes at the close. [Please select]
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Even while living among these people, Rousseau had all the while a kind of sentimental religiosity which revolted at their ribald scoffing, although he never protested. [Please select]
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She herself was inclined to connect this look with his religiosity, associating religion, as she did, exclusively with the sad things of life. [Please select]
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