Religionism

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  • noun. Excessive or affected religious zeal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Outward practice or profession of religion.
  • noun. Affected religious zeal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The practice of, or devotion to, religion.
  • noun. Affectation or pretense of religion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. excessive religious ardour or zeal
  • noun. extreme piety
  • noun. discrimination or prejudice on the basis of religion or religious beliefs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
  • noun. exaggerated religious zealotry
  • Word Usage
    "But the effect, upon the minds of young persons, of frequenting the society of those in whose conversation and manners religious principle or feeling does not appear, will almost inevitably be to render what they know of religion the source of uneasiness, and of fruitless conflicts between conscience and inclination: and if, at the same time, much of hollow religionism is witnessed by them, the probable result will be either immovable indifference, or confirmed infidelity."