Word Meanings - DERELIGIONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make irreligious; to turn from religion. He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.

Related words: (words related to DERELIGIONIZE)

• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• RELIGION
  A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
• IRRELIGIOUS
  1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
• RELIGIONISM
  1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
• WOULDINGNESS
  Willingness; desire.
• IRRELIGIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being irreligious; ungodliness.
• WOULD-BE
  ' (as, a would-be poet.
• RELIGIONIZE
  To bring under the influence of religion. Mallock.
• WOULD
  Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
• RELIGIONLESS
  Destitute of religion.
• WOULDING
  Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. Hammond.
• RELIGIONARY; RELIGIONER
  A religionist.
• DERELIGIONIZE
  To make irreligious; to turn from religion. He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.
• RELIGIONIST
  One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot. The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged
• RELIGIONARY
  Relating to religion; pious; as, religionary professions.
• IRRELIGIOUSLY
  In an irreligious manner.
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• SUBRELIGION
  A secondary religion; a belief or principle held in a quasi religious veneration. Loyalty is in the English a subreligion. Emerson.
• CO-RELIGIONIST
  One of the same religion with another.
• IRRELIGION
  The state of being irreligious; want of religion; impiety.
• IRRELIGIONIST
  One who is irreligious.
• BOTHERSOME
  Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.