N. impiety, sin,
irreverence,
profaneness,
profanity,
profanation,
blasphemy,
desecration,
sacrilege,
scoffing,
hypocrisy,
pietism,
cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion,
formalism,
austerity,
sanctimony,
sanctimoniousness,
pharisaism,
precisianism,
sabbatism,
sabbatarianism, odium theologicum,
sacerdotalism,
bigotry, (prejudice) 481, blue laws,
hardening,
backsliding,
declension,
perversion,
reprobation,
sinner,
scoffer,
blasphemer,
sacrilegist, sabbath breaker,
worldling,
hypocrite,
tartufe,
mawworm,
bigot, saint,
pharisee,
sabbatarian,
formalist,
methodist,
puritan,
pietist,
precisian,
religionist,
devotee,
ranter,
fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of belial, the wicked one, children of darkness
V. be impious,
profane,
desecrate,
blaspheme,
revile,
scoff,
swear, commit sacrilege,
snuffle, turn up the whites of the eyes,
idolize Adj. impious,
irreligious,
desecrating,
profane,
irreverent,
sacrilegious,
blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate,
hardened,
perverted,
reprobate,
hypocritical,
canting,
pietistical,
sanctimonious,
unctuous,
pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much,
bigoted,
fanatical,
priest-ridden Adv. under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion
Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio
N. irreligion, indevotion, # godlessness,
ungodliness,
laxity,
quietism,
skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief,
incredulity,
incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief,
pyrrhonism,
bout,
agnosticism,
atheism,
deism,
hylotheism,
materialism,
positivism,
nihilism,
infidelity,
freethinking,
antichristianity,
rationalism,
neology,
atheist,
skeptic, unbeliever,
deist,
infidel,
pyrrhonist,
giaour, heathen,
alien,
gentile,
nazarene, espri fort,
freethinker,
latitudinarian,
rationalist,
materialist,
positivist,
nihilist,
agnostic,
somatist, theophobist
V. be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith, doubt, question,
dechristianize Adj. irreligious,
indevout,
undevout,
devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy,
unsanctified,
unhallowed,
atheistic, without god,
skeptical,
freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted,
incredulous, faithless, lacking faith,
deistical, unchristian,
antichristian, worldly,
mundane, earthly,
carnal, worldly &c. minded